Non-League Paper

SHILLINGS BOUGHT MODERN SUCCESS

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
20 August 2017

But there’s always a place for the old Amateur days

BOB BEVAN’S Cat Stats

HIS WEEK… SHAMATEURISM
Bob ‘the Cat’ Bevan ends his series on the great amateur leagues with a look at the way professionalism has helped them blossom
“Do you take the Non-League Paper?”
Ionce asked the late and truly great Jimmy Hill. “Of course I do,” he replied. I had forgotten that he was president of Corinthian Casuals FC who are, to this day, the highest-placed of the true amateur clubs. Last season they only just missed out on reaching the Premier Divisi...

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