Mini leagues are the way forward

WITH little safe prospect of football for the time being, let’s just continue the 2019-20 season in what would have been...

MIXING IT WITH ULTRAS MADE A MAN OF IL MURO

By Edd Paul ■ FORMER Wrexham and Wycombe Wanderers striker Craig Faulconbridge has quit as manager of Hellenic League One East...

Three-way split is the way forward

MIDWAY: If there is reorganistion where would clubs like Brackley fit best? I FOUND Paul Doswell’s article regarding a suggested regionalisation...

FROM THE YANKEES TO GLADS FOR GURU MOLLOY

By Neil Harvey ROBERT MOLLOY, the Hollywood film producer and grandson of former New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, has accepted...

It’s ideal to bring in Step 4-5 plans now

WHILE I’m content to leave the debate about whether the FA were premature in voiding Steps 3 to 7, why oh...

NOW LET’S TURN BACK THE CLOCK

GOOD OLD DAYS: Geoff Chapple lifts the FA Trophy after winning it as manager of Kingstonian PICTURE: PA Images By Steve...

Mini leagues will help fill the void

I WOULD like to add my suggestion to those of the Blyth Spartans vice-chairman Kevin Scott (NLP, April 19) about geographical...

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An eight-team play-off?

READING Neal Ardley’s suggestion of an eight-day resolution to National League (NLP, April 26) led me to realise that there is...

DIDDY BOY LINCOLN TO THE RESCUE

By John Lyons WHEELY IMPRESSIVE: Lincoln Callaghan gets on his bike and with dad Chris IF DIDCOT Town ever need someone...

FRENCH HAVE LED THE WAY!

FOR those of us steeped in football, it is natural to see the Premier League as an unassailable force. A sporting...

TOWN ARE MAKING A STAND

By Neil Harvey THEY may not know what division they’ll be playing in next season as yet but, one thing’s for...

SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS BUILT ME UP FOR LIFE IN THE FAST LANE

Boyd went from Sideshow Bob to the headline act By CHRIS DUNLAVY IN THE SPOTLIGHT: George Boyd, left, holds off Chelsea’s...

NOW CARDS ARE GETTING SHIRTY

By David Richardson PUT A NAME ON IT! Artistic designs of Woking’s proposed home, left, and away shirts WOKING fans won’t...

VICS TO REMAIN, BUT NO MERGER

By Neil Harvey WITTON Albion and Northwich Victoria have extended their groundshare agreement to the end of the 2025/26 season –...

LINNETS PLEDGE FOR A PLAY-OFF

By John Lyons KING’S Lynn Town chairman Stephen Cleeve has given his backing for the play-offs to go ahead – if,...

WEAVING THROUGH SUMS

HARROGATE Town have voted to play the play-offs but manager Simon Weaver says the process has been made harder by not...

IT WILL BE ALL WHITE ON THE NIGHT, INSISTS MARC

DORKING Wanderers owner Marc White is convinced the National League could easily fit in play-offs before the start of next season....

THERE’S NO SELF INTEREST AT HEED

GATESHEAD chairman Neil Pinkerton is not in favour of the National League season being concluded via the play-offs – despite his...

EIGHT-TEAM SYSTEM IS THE ANSWER

BRACKLEY Town have asked the National League to decide the northern half of Step 2 with an eight-team play-off. Just 11...

PLAYERS ON SIDE FOR GILL

UPBEAT Jerry Gill knows he can count on his Bath Coty players if and when the play-offs take place. The fourth-placed...

CLUBS AWAIT PLAY-OFF D-DAY

By Matt Badcock IT’S A KNOCKOUT! Chorley won last year’s Play-Off Final in National League North PICTURE: Stefan Willoughby THE NATIONAL...

WE WON’T BE BOWING OUT, SAYS CHIEF KEN

By John Lyons BATTLERS: Chorley endured a long first season at Step 1 MYSTIFIED chairman Ken Wright has scotched speculation that...

TURN BACK TIME Chapple echoes regional rethink

NON-LEAGUE great Geoff Chapple insists football must bring back regionalisation to save the national game. Chapple – a five-time FA Trophy...

Credit successful clubs

THERE’S been a lot of controversy regarding the rather abrupt end to the season at Steps 3 to 7 and, to...