Non-League Paper

Are statistics null and void too?

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
26 September 2021

THE rights and wrongs of how the 2020-21 season was handled have been aired and debated, but there’s one question that remains for me as a supporter of a National League North club.
While our season (and that of our Southern counterparts) was declared null and void, what happens to all the goals scored and appearances made by players in that time and the matches played by the clubs?
Are club statisticians simply binning everything that happened in the league, wiping out 20-odd matches and appearances as if they were never played?
Or are these games still being entered into datab...

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