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The system is ludicrious – and unfair

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
15 June 2025

The system

JOY: Oldham’s James Norwood celebrates scoring their second goal in the promotion final

NOW is perhaps an appropriate juncture for a serious discussion of the play-off system, bearing in mind that the teams who finished fifth and seventh in the National League fought it out at Wembley for a place in the Football League.
Perhaps it is worth mentioning that, whilst an interested follower of the Non-League scene, I have no particular axe to grind with regard to the support of a specific club, but I find it impossible not to mention the following ‘grouse’ regarding...

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