There aren’t many sides who can sell their top goalscorer for £300,000 in January, then maintain their form so one of his fellow frontmen and manager pick up league sponsor’s awards for February.
Ten years ago yesterday, Paul Fairclough sent his first England Non-League international side – then known as the National Game XI – into battle against Belgium.
I was there the last time Histon staged a big FA Cup night, when Roberto Martinez’s Swansea City beat Steve Fallon and John Beck’s side 2-1 to progress to the fourth round.
As referee Andre Marriner did to Liverpool, you’ve got to hand it to Mansfield’s players, manager and fans; last Sunday they were everything the FA Cup should be about.
Midway through the first half of Mansfield Town’s FA Cup second round ‘winner-takes-all’ replay with Lincoln City, the tannoy operator asked for the owner of a Peugeot 307 to return to their car.
The setting is one of the most tranquil in Non-League, the final few yards having to be completed on foot with the team coach unable to squeeze into a narrow driveway past the Church Road allotments.
If there is anyone well-placed to talk about the importance of building a family environment at a football club it is Harrogate Town manager Simon Weaver.
Retiring from playing football at whatever level is tough, the question of how to fill that void come 3pm on a Saturday afternoon is a hugely emotional, personal poser.
It’s not often that you find yourself the subject of a quiz question, but that’s exactly what happened to Doug Young as soon as he joined the elite band of Wembley Cup Final hat-trick heroes.