Non-League Paper

PEWITS CAN RELY ON LOCAL HERO JOE

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
10 May 2026

By Andrew Simpson

EMLEY AFC
ON A wall in the bar at Emley is a photograph including a small boy clutching a scarf on a day when he was mascot.
He went to watch games at a ground he could see from his bedroom window in a house next door.
The original outfit played in the Northern Premier League’s top flight at the time, and last weekend the new club celebrated promotion back there after the same youngster from the picture scored a decisive penalty.
“I’ve still got the scarf!” Joe Clegg told The NLP. “I guess that puts into perspective what’s hap...

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