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STEP 5 & 6 ACTION

STEP 5 ROUND-UPS NORTHERN LEAGUE MORPETH TOWN opened a fourpoint lead at the top of the division with a 3-2 win...

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LINNETS LEAVE IT LATE TO LEVEL…

Bears are denied by sub Threlkeld By Steven Cone PEGGED BACK: Jason Carey, far right, of Congleton Town, watches his header...

It’s just not Premier class

IF clubs want to play on 3G pitches to make money from their communities, then good luck to them, but don’t...

COURT IN THE ACT SHRIVY NET DAVIES

FORMER Tamworth coach Courtney Belford has become one of the youngest managers in the Midland League at the age of 27....

Ref respect is two-way

I MUST applaud Ian Ridley’s balanced and thought provoking piece regarding referees’ respect (NLP, September 10). Everyone conveniently forgets, that respect...

GROUND FORCE NEVER STRONGER

Matt BADCOCK ADORED: Kettering fans love their old Rockingham Road home PICTURE: Action Images ATOUR of Fenway Park, the home of...

3G NONSENSE

REAL DEAL: Artificial grass is here to stay SO, clubs can win promotion in the National League if you play on...

HATS OFF TOCURETON

A DOFF of the cap to Jamie Cureton. His two goals in the EVO-STIK South Premier for Farnborough at Gosport on...

This is no matchday experience

I BECAME aware recently on visiting a ground that a matchday programme was no longer being issued. After reading the letter...

IT’S HAPPY DAYS FOR SPARTANS’ BOSS ALUN

By Mark Carruthers THEY say a year is a long time in football. But whoever ‘they’ are should speak to Blyth...

KEEP CALM AND STAY FOCUSED!

POWERS OF RECOVERY ARE KEY AT THIS EARLY STAGE David PREECE EX LINCOLN CITY AND DARLINGTON KEEPER So, the season couldn’t...

DIARY OF A GROUND HOPPER

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 Rothwell Corinthians 0 Kirby Muxloe 1 FIRSTLY, here’s another embarrassing confession: I am pretty certain I have visited...

HODGES TRUE TO 5-STAR TRURO!

Five in a row for City By Matt Badcock FIVE IN A ROW: Truro City boss Lee Hodges THAT’S ANDY! Andrew...

IT’S SUDS LAWS AS JAMIE IS AXED

JAMIE GODBOLD finally guided AFC Sudbury to their first league win of the season on Tuesday night – and was then...

GIVE ME A CRACK AS N0 1 – REID

By Matt Badcock COLIN REID helped to develop England stars Ledley King, Scott Parker and Peter Crouch and has been an...

I’VE JOINED A TEAM OF WINNERS, IN DIS-GUISE

New boss Cox wants a change of culture to rejuvenate Lions By Matt Badcock SHORE IT UP: Paul Cox, inset, will...

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DIARY OF A GROUND HOPPER

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 2 Dorking Wanderers 3 Worthing 2 THE FA Cup marches into its ‘third’ round – mysteriously called the 1st...

TOOTH’S OUT AS PITMEN NAB ROB

By Joshua Peck RETURN: Rob Smith is back at Hednesford AFTER two years away, Rob Smith has returned to Key Park...

UNITED WE STAND FOR A PROUD COMMUNITY

By MATT BADCOCK ON THE RISE: Coventry United are enjoying plenty of success with an impressive squad including ex-Newport County striker...

NEXT BLUES BOSS SHAW HAS TALENT

CHESTER caretaker Tom Shaw says the new manager will inherit a talented squad – as former Solihull Moors boss Marcus Bignot...

Hartley are an example to us all…

NLP says… Tuesday night was one of those rare nights when I actually got out to watch a game of football....

STEP 5 & 6 ACTION

STEP 5 ROUND-UPS NORTHERN LEAGUE LEADERS Morpeth Town had four different scorers as they beat lowly Washington 4-1 at Craik Park....