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LEAGUE CHIEF TONY DIES

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
14 December 2025

By Neil Harvey

THE Southern League are mourning the loss of popular former officer Tony Stone, who passed away peacefuly at home on December 5.
Tony was the League’s Ground Grading and Floodlight co-ordinator between 2017 and 2023, before then passing the Ground Grading baton to David Knight and becoming his assistant.
Prior to joining the Southern League, he was an officer with the Western League and had been a long-term officer at the Gloucestershire FA since 1970, acting as Finance Director between 2005 and 2019.
The Southern League said: “We send our sincerest cond...

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