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Midlands minefield!

Imbalances in neighbouring leagues risk leaving a “totally distorted” Midland Football League Premier Division with greater problems in the future.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
28 May 2023

Midlands minefield!

By Andy Mitchell

ALL CHANGE: The Midland League is being ‘distorted’ by geographical problems elsewhere in the pyramid

IMBALANCES in neighbouring leagues risk leaving a “totally distorted” Midland Football League Premier Division with greater problems in the future.
That is the view of long-serving MFL chairman Mick Joiner after the FA’s league allocations for next season saw the division’s footprint dragged farther towards the north-west.
Seven clubs from its eastern flank got transferred to the United Counties League as part of an FA restructure to create two extra Step 5 divisions in...

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