Northern Premier League

Final Whistle

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
1 March 2026

BOLDMERE ST MICHAEL’S 0 LONG EATON UNITED 1
by Chris Towers

GAME ABANDONED AFTER 82 MINUTES, REFEREE INJURED
Boldmere is a suburb of Sutton Coldfield and the ground is down the road from the Chester Road train station.
The club lies next to St Michael’s Church, with its jet-black painted club house bordering an artificial pitch, lying next to a bowls club and a five a side playing area.
Greeted warmly in the function room, the chairman told me that as many as seventy teams use the artificial pitch.
The ground buzzed with chatter, from marriages in Gretna Green, iron...

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