Non-League Paper

SAINTS ALIVE! PREPARE FOR TOP PURPS ARCH DREAM

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
17 May 2026

FA VASE PREVIEW SPECIAL ...INTRODUCING AFC STONEHAM
By JON COUCH

AFC STONEHAM will walk out under the Wembley arch this afternoon with the benefit of valuable tactics and advice obtained from Southampton FC’s Staplewood training ground.
Ironies aside, a session under the Saints’ famous campus dome, ten miles from the Purps’ Stoneham Lane home, was part of a gruelling fortnight’s preparation for the biggest game in the club’s history, which included no fewer than THREE regional cup finals.
Adding the Russell Cotes Cup and Southampton Senior Cup t...

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