IT’S BEEN SO EMOTIONAL!

AS the floodlights clunked off at Maidstone United, Danny Cowley was reflecting on Lincoln City’s incredible season after ticking off his...

NOW THAT’S AN EGG-CELLENT GESTURE!

WHAT A TREAT! First-team players Rob Swain, second right, and Paul Konchesky, far right, plus coaches left, hand out Easter eggs...

WE’VE NOTHING MORE TO HYDE

THERE’S something very different about this season, can you spot it? There’s two things in fact. Hyde United aren’t getting relegated...

VASE CLASH WILL NOT DISAPPOINT!

COMMUNITY SPIRIT: Cleethorpes’ trip to Wembley has got the town buzzing PICTURES: Andy Nunn & Jake Whiteley SINCE booking their places...

CHAMBERS’ MADE FOR NUNEATON!

By Matt Badcock MAKING A SPL-ASH! Ashley Chambers, pictured celebrating a goal at Wembley for York in 2012, is enjoying a...

TOMMY’S PROUD TO SERVE SPORTS

TOMMY WIDDRINGTON quit as manager of Eastbourne Borough after five years in charge – and in an emotional exit said it...

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...

JJ’S ON TRACK FOR A DREAM RETURN

FIRST STEPS BACK TO A MIRACLE COMEBACK ROAD TO RECOVERY: JJ O’Donnell dreams of playing competitive football again PICTURE: Action GYMS...

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...

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...