Alan Alger: Players must be alert to betting criteria

LAST week’s NLP reported on an investigation into two end of season matches in National League North.

Stuart Hammonds: The people’s paper has given me great games and names!

ON a warm May morning just after the turn of the century, I left my Nottingham home to head south to...

Sam Elliott: Cheltenham are proving the theory wrong

IT was almost as if they were trying to prove a point, and not to the Forest Green Rovers fan making...

Ian Ridley: Steve Claridge Still Has The Hunger For Management

THE TWO biggest - and most difficult - promotions in English football, the professionals will tell you, are from Championship to...

Secret Non-League Footballer Column

Footballers need advice not Dubai delights

Salute To Our Big Winners of 2013

THE turkey’s been devoured, Christmas jumpers are back in the wardrobe and in-laws have been seen off – rather like Step...

Trust Santa To Deliver A Perfect Gift

IT’S THAT time of year again folks when the big white-haired fella pulls on his red and white kit, fills his...

Trophy’s Little Extra Bonus Is A New One On Me

WITH Barnet and Grimsby’s agreement for yesterday’s FA Trophy second round tie to go to extra-time if necessary, rather than straight...

Uni Star Alex In A Class Of His Own

IT IS a clumsy Google translation, from Swedish to English, as Ostersunds FK announce their signing of Welling United’s Alex Dyer...

Robbie Willmott’s Turned Left On Path To Success

I caught up with one of Josh Coulson’s old centre-half mentors, Wayne Hatswell, and the current Newport County coach’s gaffer, Justin...

Dream Double On A Day Of Destiny

When Josh Coulson dons his tin helmet for the 200th time in a Cambridge United shirt this lunchtime against Sheffield United,...

Mitchell Cole’s Legacy Lives On

Saturday marked a year since Mitchell Cole tragically collapsed and died while warming up for a game of five-a-side.

McNulty Is Helping To Get Luton Town Firing

It was last February 9, the penultimate home game of Paul Buckle’s reign, when the Kenilworth Road PA man read out...

Gary Speed’s Legacy Lives On At Colwyn Bay

Most people born in the 1950s or earlier have been recounting this week where they were when they heard Kennedy had...

Hemel Hempstead Town style so suited to Dean

THERE’S been a few Irish managers in the news this week, with Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane joining forces to boss...

No Derby Delight, Just Grim Reading

You can’t please all of the people all of the time.

So, Who Reigns In Big Money League?

The other 64,000 dollar question I get asked is ‘Who’s got the biggest playing budget?’

Could It Be Written In The Stars For Grimsby?

If I'd had a fiver for every time I’ve been asked this summer which Conference club had done the best business,...

Suicide Shocker Shows Lads How To Get Help

Clarke Carlisle's documentary ‘Football’s Suicide Secret’ was compelling, with the PFA chairman revealing for the first time how he has battled...

Full Time Issue Is A Major Dilemma

As last season drew to a close, my belief was that the Conference Premier was starting to return to its traditional...

More Fun And Games – You Can Bet On It!

THE summer is a time when football managers clear their deck, shuffle their pack and look to come up with the...

It Needn’t End In Tiers If Our Kids Can Learn

Football commentator and Kingstonian first-team coach Martin Tyler takes a critical look at the diminishing opportunities for young English players at...

Club Must Get Behind Struggling England

Football commentator and Kingstonian first team coach Martin Tyler examines the failure of England Under 21s at the European Championships

Guest Column: Former Hyde Manager Gary Lowe

The former Hyde boss Gary Lowe writes exclusively for The Non-League Paper.

Burr-Fect Scenario For Kiddy

Technology was just cutting through the edge of our consciences in 1983.