Non-League Paper

Non-League must stick together…

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
9 February 2020

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Jon Couch, executive editor

ONE of my earliest memories of the Camrose, former home of Basingstoke Town, was as a local newspaper reporter in the early 2000s. It was a game against Aldershot Town (if I remember rightly), played around about this time of year on a cut up, patched-up sand-based pitch, more akin to beach football than the Conference South.
As the ball got caught up in the boggy centre circle for the umpteenth time, one elderly home supporter, sat in front of me, turned around to his mate next to him and groaned: “This pitch needs to be completely dug u...

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