Great Reputations: Pegasus – the New Elizabethans
Post-war Britain, a land of austerity, near-bankruptcy and rationing. Football was enjoying a boom in attendances, brylcreem proliferated the dressing …
Tag: Non-League
Modern Football: A short film from Aragón, Spain
Regional football is another world. A million miles away from professional football, the essence of the game still survives, in its truest form,…
CONIFA comes to town
I had never met anyone from Tibet before, never heard of Abkhazia or Karpatalya, but the CONIFA World Football Cup can open your eyes and ears to the s…
The Non-League 100: The London Caledonians
Most people associate the strict amateur code with clubs like Corinthian and Casuals, but there were a host of other clubs who lived by the ideals and …
The Non-League 100: Enfield 1967-70
Until the last 20 years or so, Enfield were a huge name in the non-league game, from their triumphs in amateur football through to the club’s Conferenc…
The bad Italian job: How Francesco Becchetti sinks Leyton Orient from the verge of Championship to the risk of failure
The most iconic instant of Leyton Orient 2016-17 campaign is probably the final home game played against Colchester. The O’s were already relegated fro…
The Non-League 100: Dulwich Hamlet in the ’30s – heroes in pink and blue
Dulwich Hamlet have enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in recent years, but back in the 1930s, they were one of the leading clubs in the amateur game. …
Deportivo Galicia – The Spanish football team making their way in England
“Yes, Barcelona are a great team - but could they do it on a wet, Tuesday night at Stoke?” In England over the last couple of decades, most successful…
Can non-league launch an Os revival?
Featured on the football website Game of the People, flying the flag for football as it should be - everywhere. About 40 years ago, I was visiting Bri…
Vegan football, Silkmen, Cardinals and Sandgrounders: The wonderful world of the National League
Every season the painfully drawn-out spectre of relegation for fans of struggling clubs holds far more dread than the final, mathematical certainty tha…