Non-League Paper

REACHING OUT THE NON-LEAGUE WAY!

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
7 June 2026

Final Whistle REFLECTION OF THE SEASON
Top poet and author CHRIS TOWERS has some end-of-season reflections, and details of a forthcoming project to hear the voices of Non-League supporters

The band Travis once penned a song ‘Writing to Reach You’ and I have sought to ‘reach you’, the Non-League supporter , in writing words and poems in my column over the last three years, not just to report on games but on human encounters.

Football unearths stories in all of us, expressing our love for a game first discovered in childhood, playing games like Subbuteo on clut...

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