CHARITY WAS THE WINNER ALWAYS

Andy SMART STAND-UP COMEDIAN AND NON-LEAGUE FAN TEAMMATES: Glenn Hoddle and Hugh Grant, inset W HEN Liam Kenna and Lee Bircham...

FOUNDATION PITCH IN TO HELP CLUBS IN A CRISIS

By David Richardson THAT’S SANDY! Nearly £10m will aid pitch improvement THE FOOTBALL Foundation have announced the launch of a £9.56m...

South beat Anfi eld fanfare

I WAS delighted to see Matt Badcock’s article about the rebirth of South Liverpool FC (NLP, May 3). The first game...

‘SWIFTS WOE STILL PLAGUES ME NOW’

Hardman Dicks just can’t forget play-off misery By Hugo Varley SO CLOSE: Dicks led Heybridge Swifts to the verge of promotion,...

DON’T RID THE GAME OF PURITY

Ian RIDLEY AN AUTHENTIC VOICE ON NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL SPECTATOR SPORT: A clash between Long Melford and Thetford bears many of the...

COME AND APPLY FOR YOUR £10k BURSARY!

By David Richardson COMUNITY: Grants for facilities like these are on offer SPORT England are offering community grassroots sport and physical...

HE’SSO FAR AHEAD OF HIS TIME!

PAUL FAIRCLOUGH CHRIS DUNLAVY DISCOVERS WHAT MAKES THE ENGLAND C BOSS SO REVERED EXPERIENCE: Paul Fairclough has been in charge of...

‘PLAYING BIG GUNS SEEMED TO SUIT US MORE’

THE DAYS WHEN WOKING SCARED TOP-FLIGHT SKY BLUES… By Steve Tervet LORY DAYS: Steve Thompson celebrates with manager Geoff Chapple after...

BURY THE OLD, OR BRING IN THE NEW?

BURY AFC are waiting to fi nd out whether the Coronavirus will delay their bid to join Non-League from next season...

JACK BUILDING A NEW FUTURE

Back on the tools as King hangs up his boots By David Richardson CAREER HIGH: Jack King won promotion to the...

ACE TOM SCALING ALL NEW HEIGHTS

Romans star moves mountains for charity By Mark Stillman PEDAL POWER: Tom Smith is scaling the height of Mount Everest on...

RAINBOW SLOGAN IS SOWN IN WITH ‘JACKS!

By Mark Carruthers NORTHERN League Division One club Whickham are to honour the efforts of the NHS and key workers on...

WAITING GAME AS EFL CALL BECKONS

By Matt Badcock IN LIMBO: Harrogate Town are one of a host of clubs awaiting their promotion fate PICTURE: Pinnacle ANXIOUS...

HUNTER: LEAGUE HUNCH ‘COST US £125K!’

By Neil Harvey OUTSPOKEN Boreham Wood chairman Danny Hunter says an ill-advised prediction from a National League administrator has cost him...

THE CAP FITS

Time to bring insalary control,insists Doswell By Matt Badcock PAUL DOSWELL insists football must introduce a wage cap and protect clubs...

DOWELL: TREAT US ALL EQUALLY

By Andrew Warshaw KILLER BLOW: Worthing were denied promotion to Step 2 WORTHING owner George Dowell has urged the National League...

US STAR MOLLOY SHOWS HIS WILL

By Mark Carruthers THERE can’t be many Non-League clubs that have a link with a Hollywood film producer, one of the...

NLPsays…

Give everyone opportunity to have their say THE thoughts of Ian Ridley (see facing page) on Non-League football always provide plenty...

THE SUMS JUST DON’T ADD UP!

Steve KING DART FORD PROMOTION HOPES: Notts County are looking for a return to the EFL with King’s Lynn, inset top,...

Play-off patience

THERE was a suggestion that we’d get a decision one way or the other about the National League play-offs on Tuesday....

YATES BREWS UP FOR A NEW START

By MATT BADCOCK MINE’S A LATTE! Mark Yates says serving customers in his coffee house is a welcome distraction at times...

Shoot-out for promotion

THE idea of a season without promotion and relegation doesn’t sit right with me - it’s part and parcel of the...

DEAN AND CO BID TO SUPPORT PLAYERS…

By John Lyons DEAN Holdsworth is urging worried players to consider what the Non- League Footballers Assocation has to offer at...

Form guide tips it

IT’S interesting to see that current leaders Barrow seem to be the most popular choice for promotion from the National League...

‘WAGE CAP IS NEEDED NOW’

IN HIS latest no-holdsbarred article, experienced Non-League manager Paul Doswell gives his forthright opinion on football’s out-of-control fi nances - and...