2024/25 Non-League Directory – Out Now

Now in its 47th year, the Directory covers the highs and lows from the 2023-24 Non-League campaign, and is your comprehensive...

Fixtures fail to take fans into account

FANS’ FORUM LOGIC? Dover fans must go to Hastings on Boxing Day I’VE often thought that it was only the Premier...

Posh remain the blueprint for success

FANS’ FORUM SO, Peterborough United have done it again – landing the best talent in Non-League football. They’ve built a club...

Fantasy Non-League 2024-25 – Enter Now

INTRODUCTION TO FANTASY NON-LEAGUE Well, here we go again, it only feels like yesterday that we were finishing last season’s competition....

GAFFER’S GREATEST GAFFER: Positivity was Sean’s mantra

Getting called to the front of the coach on your first away day with a new club is always a nervy...

THE BIG INTERVIEW: I’ve had my manager’s head on for ten years!

If any Runcorn Linnets player needs a bit of advice in the coming season, they only need to seek out the...

New contract rule is putting clubs at risk

FANS’ FORUM I AM secretary of Denbigh Town FC, who play in Tier 2 (North) of the Welsh Football League. The...

I WANT TO FINISH OFF THE JOB I’VE STARTED AT BEES

BARNET MANAGER DEAN BRENNAN By CHRIS DUNLAVY NOT many National League managers would spurn a job offer from a club in...

I’VE PROVED THE DOUBTERS WRONG MY WHOLE CAREER

ANDY BUTLER By CHRIS DUNLAVY LEARNING CURVE: Andy Butler during his spell as interim manager of Doncaster Rovers PICTURE: Alamy ANDY...

Diary of a Groundhopper: Gornal Athletic 1-3 Tipton Town

TUESDAY, APRIL 30TH GORNAL ATHELTIC 1 TIPTON TOWN 3 THERE are still plenty of matches available to those who want their...

Board must answer this play-off mess

FANS’ FORUM SERIOUS questions need to be asked of the competence and governance of the board of the National League who...

Now’s the time to make your votes count!

■ AFC Wimbledon are the ultimate Non-League success story – so what better way to celebrate their fairytale rise to the...

Decision not to extend is dangerous

FANS’ FORUM FA chiefs, league committees and their dignitaries, both local and national, need to understand that this has been an...

Many fine shouts for top gaffer

MANAGER OF THE YEAR SPORTS GROUND DEVELOPMENT WHO would be a manager these days? Spinning plates with water-tight budgets and working...

NATIONAL GAME AWARDS

AFC Wimbledon are the ultimate Non-League success story – so what better way to celebrate their fairytale rise to the Football...

Diary of a Groundhopper: Highworth Town 2-3 Great Wakering Rovers

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Today looks like it will finally be the day The Fox and I get to visit Highworth Town’s...

No substitute for manager’s hunch

FANS’ FORUM LIFE’S A PITCH: Buckingham FC’s Stratford Fields ON JANUARY 24, 2024, I attended the Northern Premier League game between...

Vase rivals a credit to their clubs

FANS’ FORUM LAST week’s FA Vase tie between Tilbury and North Greenford United was, as expected, a tense and exciting encounter....

Late venue switch isn’t fair on fans

FANS’ FORUM AS a supporter of Romford FC since the 1960’s, I was somewhat irked by the late change and venue...

COLE SKUSE

The plan was to quit but I just couldn’t walk away By JON COUCH COLE’S GOAL: Cole Skuse leads a very...

Not all clubs have luxury of a facility

FANS’ FORUM I REFER to the excellent article by Tom Cooper, Managing Director of Sports Ground Development (NLP, Jan 14). In...

It’s so easy just to blame the manager

FANS’ FORUM THE recent merry-goround of football clubs sacking managers suggests that some club chairmen – and indded supporters – have...

Capturing the spirit of grass roots

FANS’ FORUM I RECENTLY attended Worthing United v Dorking Wanderers B in the Southern Combination Division One at Step 6. After...

Diary of a Groundhopper: Boro Rangers 4-0 Northallerton Town

This week, I am following in the footsteps of The NLP’s own Tony Incenzo, who recently visited the home of Boro...

Diary of a Groundhopper: Paget Rangers 2 Walsall 5

TUESDAY DECEMBER 12TH I’ve been in Panama dreaming of the cold weather in England (but not the place) while ‘sweating buckets’...