POOLE GET GREEN LIGHT – FOR NOW!

By Matt Badcock POOLE TOWN have completed the ground work to avoid demotion from the National League South – but their...

PROBE INTO KNIFE WIELDING PLAYER

POLICE are investigating an allegation that a game was abandoned after a Sawbridgeworth Town player ran on to the pitch brandishing...

LET’S BUCK THIS TREND

BUILD A LEGACY, NOT JUST A PLAY THING Good e vening, I from Esse x, in case you couldn’t tell. My...

BRILLIANT BLEND OF THE OLD AND THE NEW

THERE are few places better for gallows humour than the Non-League game. Winning 6-0 in midweek, Salisbury FC fans began a...

A ROCKY ROAD AHEAD FOR KS

NON-LEAGUE LEGENDS ON THE MOVE These are troubled times for Kingstonian, one of Non-League football’s most famous names. They will become...

YOU’VE NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD!

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE… IT’S ALL CHANGE: A typical modern-day Press box and the contrast between Ceefax and Twitter,...

BORO SHELL OUT AS FOXES PROWL

By Sam Elliott ONE Non-League star is heading to the Premier League – with another set to follow him within days....

Ian Ridley: Lincoln City boss Danny Cowley can save the day!

THE MEDIA circus has moved on, a new story to be covered. Exit Sutton United – and Wayne Shaw with his...

FA chairman Greg Clarke: Non-League is the heartbeat of our game

THE Football Association and The Non-League Paper have teamed up to bring you a series of exclusive columns and features. Chairman...

Football Family joining forces to aid stricken ex-Frome Town man Jamie Mines

JAMIE MINES was a real fans’ favourite for his goalscoring exploits at clubs like Frome Town, Larkhall Athletic, Paulton Rovers and...

Neil Jensen: Remember, it’s just a game and Non-League is the tonic

IT has been a bad week or two for football in many ways.

Sam Elliott Column: Time to stick my neck on the line

By Sam Elliott IT was a little over a few hours after the call came urging me to stick my head...

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...