I REALLY hope all the leagues and cups can be played out this season – what a celebration Non-League Finals Day at Wembley will be.
What strange times we are living in? Longing for my football fix, I’ve been watching old games, from long lost seasons? It took me half an hour to get the DVD player working, and the video even longer. But it has given me a chance to look back on some great matches – ones that I attended and then returned home to watch the highlights on TV.
Obviously, the only games that my club, Farnborough Town, were covered in were in the FA Cup but, sadly, this doesn’t involve the first time they reached the first round proper, away at Yeovil in 1980-81.
I was studying for a Drama and Geography General BA, in Liverpool at the time. I was broke. I hitch hiked down, leaving my flat early on the Saturday morning.
I did a lot of hitch hiking in those days, in fact I’ve written a book about it “A Hitch In Time” (available from all good bookshops, and a great read if you are isolating). I arrived at the ground just as the game kicked off. In those days the away end was uncovered.
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CRAIG'S BOOSTS
MANAGERIAL stalwart Craig Edwards is back in charge of Barking – 23 years after he left!
LENNIE GETS THE LOVE
VETERAN caretaker chief Lennie Lawrence says he is “excited” to be handed the reins at Hartlepool United permanently – just a few weeks before his 77th birthday!
MOTORS FEELS LIKE HOLMES!
WHEN he was younger, Danny Holmes played video games that simulated being a football manager.
REES HITS FAB FOUR AS TOWN ROMP IT
RICARDO REES struck four times to help Merthyr Town maintain their spot at the top of the table with a dominant home win against play-off chasing Havant & Waterlooville.
DULWICH DISPLAY DELIGHTS COACHES
GOALS from Danny Mills, Luke Wanadio and Lorenzo’s stoppage-time finish fired Dulwich Hamlet to a comfortable win over fellow play-off hopefuls Potters Bar Town, though the scoreline doesn’t tell the full story.
ANCHORS A RAPID
ASHTON UNITED hit two goals in two minutes to come from behind to win at Stockton Town.
SEAGULLS KEEP THE HEAT ON ROMANS
BATH City were made to pay for their mistakes by high-flying Weston-super-Mare.
CLINICAL COLEMAN KEEN AS MUSTARD
CIAN COLEMAN’S hat-trick lifted Buxton to their highest league position of the season as they became the latest side to frustrate Scunthorpe.
KEV SEES RED IN REE PANT!
SOUTHEND United boss Kevin Maher hit out at referee Abigail Byrne following his side’s defeat to Yeovil Town at Roots Hall.
MARVEL MATTY DENIES MOORS
BOTH managers insisted their teams deserved more after Altrincham came from behind to steal a point in a six-goal thriller at Solihull Moors.