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FA CUP FACTFILE: Lydd are opening up a new legacy

272 clubs are involved in the FA Cup preliminary round as the remaining Step 4 teams join those from Steps 4 to 6 which made it through the extra preliminary round, including FA Cup debutants Okehampton Argyle, the only Step 6 club to definitely be involved in this round so far.

MARK HARRIS: This year’s five big issues

What do we all do in the close season? Some eagerly await new signings, complain when the fixtures aren’t out at the same time as the Premier League (“Workington away on a Tuesday, AGAIN!”) and daydream about winning the League by Christmas.

CHRIS DUNLAVY: Grigg’s his own man in the box

Will Grigg spoke last week of being inspired to join Chesterfield after watching Welcome to Wrexham.

Yet Paul Mullin, one of the documentary’s standout performers both on and off the pitch, has set the 32-year-old an intimidatingly high bar.

CHRIS DUNLAVY: We go our own way!

STEVE Morison, the new and thoroughly unexpected manager of Hornchurch, bristled when I asked how he’d cope with coaching players of a lesser standard than the Cardiff City stars he’d recently guided to Championship safety.

CHRIS DUNLAVY: It’s time for a cap on owners

When the EFL announced strict new rules aimed at preventing clubs falling into the wrong hands, it begged an obvious question.  Can the National League look forward to a future where it is not forced to reanimate the lifeless corpses of once proud sides?