Non-League Paper

NLP says… Cup needs support from ground up…

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
24 September 2017

Last year was a very special year for the FA Cup, with the four teams contesting the semi-finals having finished in the top five of the English top-flight. Only once since the Premier League, or Premiership, kicked into action in 1992 has the last four been represented with such strength and quality (in 2008-09). The cup was alive and it seemed to mean something to the world’s biggest and richest clubs… Or so we were told.
The truth of the matter is – and this really isn’t breaking news – all four of those clubs, Manchester City, Tottenham, Chelsea and most ce...

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