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Final Whistle

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
23 November 2025

by Chris Towers

BOURNE TOWN 1
COVENTRY SPHINX 1
NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE MIDLANDS
It’s not every day that you see a Pétanque pitch by a Non-League ground, alongside a cricket square, a skateboard park and an outdoor swimming pool, of which, incidentally dogs can use at the end of the lido season! This is what I found at The Lawn, home of NPL Midlands club Bourne Town.
A charitable organisation owns all facilities but there was little charity on the pitch as teams slugged it out under grey, autumnal skies. The ground, ringfenced by immaculate hedges, looked every bit lik...

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