Non-League Paper

NLP says…

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
14 May 2017

Top dogs have risen this year…
Have the footballing gods been looking down on this year’s play-off contenders? I say that because across Steps 3 and 4, seven of the nine winners finished second in their respective leagues. People always point towards the team that sneaks into the top five late on as where the potential banana skin could be, but only Salisbury in Southern South & West, and Maldon & Tiptree in Ryman North, failed to make their dominance in the table count towards the ultimate goal of promotion.
It was a similar theme in the showdowns at Ebbsfleet and Hali...

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