Non-League Paper

No sense in switch from East to West

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
2 June 2019

THE FA’s allocation of clubs for the forthcoming season still do not make sense to me. In the NPL, six clubs (Pontefract, Brighouse, Dunston, Marske, Pickering and Tadcaster) have been moved from East to West in order to even out travel times in the South East and North West division.
Consequently, the average mileage for clubs in the North West division will increase from an average of 84 to 110 miles, while the South East division only reduces from 127 to 126 miles. So to save clubs in one division from travelling an extra mile per journey, the other division has to travel an extra ...

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