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Mark Harris: Success isn’t just winning

Some see the Regulator as the game’s saviour. We don’t yet know whether the new government will follow their predecessors in restricting the Regulator’s scope to including Steps 1-2 of the NLS.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
4 August 2024

Mark HARRIS
NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE CHAIRMAN

OVER the last 12 months, a number of clubs have either resigned from their league or folded because they could no longer afford to play at their allotted level.
Some say the NLS has created the problem by encouraging clubs to chase a dream they cannot afford. I disagree. After all, it’s easy to avoid promotion – you cut the wage bill in February.
In my column last week, I focused on how clubs pursuing unaffordable ambition is impacting sporting integrity across the NLS. In some divisions, one or two clubs are paying two or three times the averag...

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