Non-League Paper

NO STONE WAS LEFT UNTURNED

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
26 July 2020

IT WAS only when Boreham Wood’s 118-pagematch day protocol document landed in my email inbox last week did I realise the true scale of the mission to restart Non-League.
From staggered arrival times to having ten balls placed on cones around the pitch at all times - not a stone was left unturned to ensure football could be safely played again.
The execution of the comprehensive match day protocol was flawless at Meadow Park when Wood took on FC Halifax Town in the opening fixture of the National League play-off schedule, as it was when I also visited Yeovil Town and Slough Town last w...

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