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Matt Badcock: Honouring the great pioneers
It's just over 120 years since Southend United were formed at a meeting in the Blue Boar Public House. This coming Saturday, when the modern-day Shrimpers...
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Columnists
/ 2 months agoMatt Badcock: We should embrace Non-League’s younger fans
Our NLP Editor At Large Matt Badcock reflects on his own Non-League upbringing and questions whether blanket restrictions on young fans risk alienating the next generation while clubs tackle genuine safeguarding concerns.
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Columnists
/ 4 months agoMatt Badcock: Refreshing England assistant Anthony Barry is all the talk
Anthony Barry delivered a half-time assessment of England’s performance that was straight out of Non-League.
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Columnists
/ 7 months agoMatt Badock: Then there were two! National League title race set to go down to the wire
Pitchside at Boreham Wood on Tuesday night, York City manager Stuart Maynard talked about how he expects the National League lead to keep flipping and flopping.
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Columnists
/ 8 months agoMatt Badcock: Ronnie stands among greats
Think about some of the most fearsome Non-League sides in recent years and Stevenage’s 2009-10 champions and Luton Town’s 2014 title winners have to come into the conversation.
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoMatt Badcock: Knowledge is the bomb for Shrimps
If you listen to National League managers, on and off the record, they are quite wary of Morecambe’s capabilities.
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoMatt Badcock: The National League super six are getting ready for a showdown
When Barnet swept York City aside last February it had the feeling of a big ‘moment’ in the title race - when will this season's big 'moment' arrive?
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoMatt Badcock: Should Macclesfield’s feat be seen as the best?
Hereford, Sutton, Altrincham, Colchester, Yeovil, Wimbledon, Luton, Lincoln. Now Macclesfield FC - the list of FA Cup shocks involving Non-League clubs beating a top-flight opponent has a new name at the table.
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Columnists
/ 9 months agoMatt Badcock: We’re winning with the Dolphins
As the one-year anniversary of their arrival at Poole Town ticked by in the week, management duo Pat Suraci and Joe Lea would no doubt have paused to reflect on quite how much has changed...
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Columnists
/ 11 months agoMatt Badcock: The numbers don’t add up
Promotion can be career altering for clubs and players. Currently the numbers don’t add up. They didn’t nine years ago either. It’s time they did.
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Matt Badcock
/ 2 years agoMatt Badcock: Multi angles are covered
DAZN’s innovative Multi-Match Live Show – an additional extra to the available streams of individual games on this busy midweek at both ends of the National League table as well at Step 2 – is...
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Columnists
/ 2 years agoMatt Badcock: Raising a toast to a glory run
It's been 70 years since York City reached the FA Cup semi-finals – and now a group of surviving fans are set for a big celebration to mark the historic occasion.
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Barnet
/ 2 years agoMatt Badcock: Barnet boss Dean Brennan is loving his Hive of title activity
Thursday morning, a little after 10am, and the lights are off in Dean Brennan’s office.
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Columnists
/ 2 years agoTop boss Bobby Wilkinson is ready to go again
Bobby Wilkinson has enjoyed a month out of the dug-out to recharge – but that’s quite enough!
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Columnists
/ 2 years agoMillwall v Dagenham & Redbridge: We had spirit, we feared no-one
TOY metal detectors, choreographed celebrations on They Think It’s All Over, a hat-trick of epic runs to the third round and even beyond – they don’t make them quite like Dagenham & Redbridge’s FA Cup...
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Columnists
/ 2 years agoMatt Badcock: A home is where the heart is!
WHAT’S it like building a football stadium? “Very stressful and very expensive – apart from that, great fun,” Cambridge City chairman Kevin Satchell says, dryly.
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Columnists
/ 2 years agoIlkeston Town striker Tom Cursons discusses footballing journey
Hotshot Tom Cursons puts his Ilkeston Town goalscoring form down to an eclectic Non-League education and ignoring the hype.
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Columnists
/ 2 years agoMatt Badcock: National League deserves third promotion place
It will be 22 years at the end of this season since Francis Tierney tapped in to send Doncaster Rovers back into the Football League.
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Latest News
/ 2 years agoExclusive: DAZN strength will carry us right around the world
The NLP sat down with National League general manager Mark Ives, their independent non-executive director Martin Howard, DAZN’s CEO of growth markets Pete Oliver and their rights director Joe Pickering to discuss the seven-year agreement,...
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Matt Badcock
/ 2 years agoDowse fans the flames
Matt BADCOCK AN INFORMED AND ENTERTAINING READ BOSS HAS HIS FIRE BACK BANK Holiday lunchtime in an Aldershot pub just along the road from where his former striker Nicke Kabamba will make his England C...
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Columnists
/ 3 years agoMATT BADCOCK: Taylor made for a Kitty increase
Just ask the NFL about the importance of eyes on their product. Even the most-watched sport in America can do with more attention – and the Taylor Swift effect has been clear to see.
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoMitch is back in the groove
Mitch Walker knew it was a bad news phone call when the doctor asked him to sit down first.
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoTrust HUST for smiles all round
Football fans can so often be relied on to do good things and it’s no different when it comes to the Hereford United Supporters’ Trust and their new Community Social Inclusion project in partnership with...
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Latest News
/ 3 years agoMATT BADCOCK: It began with a brain storm
Luton Town playing their first ever game in the Premier League brought to mind that great John Still quote having watched them lose 2-0 to Braintree Town just hours after he’d left Dagenham & Redbridge...
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Latest News
/ 4 years agoLET’S CREATE A FOUR NATIONS!
Matt BADCOCK AN INFORMED AND ENTERTAINING READ LOOK at his face, just look at his face! Barry Davies’ iconic line is perfect for this snap taken on Tuesday night. Because if there were ever any...
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