FA Cup day again or there’s the option of a Groundhop UK event in the Witney & District League. The latter is tempting but the FA Cup wins out again. It’s also a chance to get a brand new ground out of the way in the shape of York’s LNER Community Stadium.

THE stand-out club of this season’s FA Cup so far is Jersey Bulls who, in their debut campaign, have already scored 24 goals. They have defeated two higher-level opponents and have become the first club from the Channel Islands to reach the Third Round Qualifying of the competition.

With great power comes great responsiblity. Who would guess I’d quote Spider-Man!? A key part of our Clarets10 Vision is to provide a pathway for our youth through to our first team, and with this comes incredible responsibility.

YOU can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.” Or so said the fifteenth-century monk and poet, John Lydgate.

I read with interest Tracy Crouch’s initial findings on her review of football. While I agree with some of her points, including the structure of the National League being fundamentally flawed, I do question other areas of her findings and wonder how many of those “independent” people she spoke to when doing her research were really that, rather than more self-interested groups.