Non-League Paper

WE VILL MAKE UP FOR FARCE

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
11 August 2019

By Hugo Varley

DENIED: Brighouse Town won last season’s play-offs, but didn’t get promoted

VILL POWELL will tell his Brighouse Town players: You’ve been promoted once – now do it again!
The West Yorkshire club stormed to a 3-0 win at Pontefract Colleries to win the NPL East play-off final.
But they haven’t gone up to Step 3 due to their inferior points-per-game ratio, as part of the FA’s restructuring that saw only five of the seven Step 4 play-off winners promoted.
“It was laughable what happened but we can’t change it” Powell told T...

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