Southern Leagues

Southern League has geography wrong

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
25 June 2017

IT’S very odd that the Southern League has changed the name of the Southern Central League, to the South East League.
The Southern Central League doesn’t have east- ern teams in it like AFC Sudbury, Sittingbourne, Herne Bay, Ramsgate, Bury, Hastings United, Witham – all of whom play in the new Bostick League – so therefore should remain the Southern Central League.
It’s very odd that the Southern League changes its name where the league name doesn’t represent any of the clubs or teams from that specific location.
You might as well call the Northern Premie...

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