Two Non-League heroes have been nominated for the FA Cup Player of the Third Round prize but surprisingly the no one from Mansfield Town made the shortlist.
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 part-time footballers of Hastings United were in hot water with their manager last week, but it was nothing to do with the Pilot Field lads’ performances.
It was appropriate for Wayne Hatswell to announce he was hanging up his boots on FA Cup first round weekend, exactly 12 years after his name first came to prominence on Match of the Day.
Last Sunday Dorchester Town player-coach Mark Jermyn used the ESPN cameras to tell his boss at the insurance firm where he works that he might be nursing a sore head the following morning.
Critics of football’s loan market are many, and I have been one of them when a team lends a player to a club in the same division, but heavily subsidises their wages.