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HAVE WE BECOME TOO BIG IN NAME?

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
14 October 2018

IT PRECEDES the name of this paper and has become shorthand for semi-professional football in England.
But is the term ‘Non-League’ out of date?
The Chesterfield manager Martin Allen suggested as much to me in my interview with him for this paper last month. He reckoned it was to denigrate a thriving part of the game and made supporters and players of relegated clubs see it as – in fans’ parlance – tinpot.
Back in 1974, the FA ended the outdated concept of ‘amateur’ football when everybody knew players were receiving backhanders. Professionalism gre...

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