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A DECADE OF DOMINANCE!

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
11 June 2017

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South Shields made it eight in nine at Wembley, but why are Northern League sides so strong on a national scale?

By MATT BADCOCK

QUIZ time with The NLP: Who are the only club to have broken the Northern League’s domination of the FA Vase in the last nine years?
Since Whitley Bay beat Glossop North End in 2009 – the first of three successive wins for the Seahorses – a Northern League club have won the prestigious competition every year bar one.
And even then a team from that division, West Auckland, were in the showpiece final.
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