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A NEW ERA AT UNITED IS OFF AND RUNNING WITH A POINT
Lenell has role of party pooper
SALUTING OUR ARTHUR-KINGS
PROUD Arthurian League chief Jon Hunter says they’ve experienced the pinnacle of amateur football after representing England in the UEFA Regions Cup.
KORPAL'S SPOT-KICK PUNISHES STEELMEN
SHERWOOD Colliery started life at Step 4 with a narrow but morale-boosting win over Consett AFC.
DENZELL DELIGHT DENIES MILLERS
DARTFORD boss Ady Pennock admitted improvement is needed despite seeing off their local rivals in front of a bumper crowd.
GOLDEN BOY GHANDOUR KEEPS GREEN GUESSING!
FOREST Green Rovers enjoyed a tumultuous reintroduction to the National League on a thrilling afternoon which could have swung either way in a dramatic 90 minutes.
RUTHLESS DALE POSE PILGRIMS PROBLEMS
EVANTE Rodney's double D helped Rochdale saunter a comfortable opening day success against a Boston United side playing at their highest level for 17 years.
SLICK CITY GRAB A POINT AT WHITES
MARINE endured heartbreak as their inaugural National League fixture ended in a home draw with an injury-time equaliser for Oxford City.
JACK'S AT HOLMES ON BIG STAGE
YOU might have recently returned from the holiday of a lifetime or even married the man or woman of your dreams, but you’d still be hard pushed to beat the summer Rotherham United’s new signing Jack Holmes has just enjoyed.
SPOT-ON JACOB'S A CRACKER!
Young keeper's penchant for penalties
SARLL RETURNS TO SINK TOWN
DARREN Sarll returned to Huish Park to haunt his former club after steering Hartlepool United to a slender victory in a hardfought battle.
GRAND HOME FOR JORDAN
FOR IT TOOK a long time for Grand Drive to feel like ‘home’ for Jordan Gallagher, but now he’s fully settled in, the Raynes Park Vale hotshot doesn’t want to share it with anyone – not least Isthmian League South Central title-rivals Kingstonian.
JADAMA LEAVES IT LATE FOR THE RAMS
ALAST-GASP goal in the sixth minute of added time gave Ramsgate the points in what was otherwise a tight encounter in which both teams had chances.
WE ARE UNITED IN AID OF DAN
DAN Cann refuses to let motor neurone disease force him to quit Hamworthy United – and his chairman is with him ‘every step of the way’.
NIXON HITS IN ROCKIES
IT was a baptism of fire as The Rockies faced Malvern Town in their first-ever Step 4 game.
LUKE THE MAN FOR SAVAGE'S SILKMEN
A LAST-MINUTE goal from Luke Duffy gave Macclesfield the win on the opening day of the season. Worksop dominated the first half, but the Silkmen dragged themselves back into the game to gain all three points.
What counts is how the money is spent
IT WAS a close-run thing but, after crunching the numbers harder than a caffeine-fuelled psephologist on election night, we can now predict the following with a high degree of confidence: there is more chance of Dan Cole outperforming Simone Biles on the uneven bars than of a badged and blazered rugger chap from some swanky corner of the shires erasing the word \"Twickenham\" from his vocabulary.
Matthews stepping into Pellegrini shoes
REPLACING World Cup star Pat Pellegrini could be perceived as a daunting prospect but Coventry new signing Tommy Matthews is confident he's up to the challenge.
Halliday: I'm proud of united approach
SIMON Halliday has left his role as chairman of the Championship Clubs’ board both proud and frustrated by his 12 months in the role.
Young talent climbing the ladders of success
EXCITEMENT women's for rugby should only grow based on the successful work done by the England player pathway system that provides the next batch of young talent with chances to shine.
New owners keen to inspire Bournemouth
BOURNEMOUTH Rugby Club, who currently play in Regional 2 South Central, at the sixth tier of the English rugby union system, are set to take a major leap into the future following a successful acquisition.
I'm at Tigers for the long haul - Cheika
TROUBLE-shooter Michael Cheika has told Leicester fans he is not just a quick fix merchant and is hoping to be in it for the long haul in the Midlands.
Easter ‘appalled' by Prem Cup exclusion
NICK Easter has described the decision to exclude his Chinnor side and Cambridge from next season’s Premiership Cup as “appalling and astonishing.”
Diamond: We'll be fit and raring to go
STEVE Diamond insists Newcastle Falcons will be fit for purpose when they kick off the new Premiership season at home to Bristol on Friday, September 20.
We must all share the blame -Youngs
BEN Youngs insists Leicester’s players only have themselves to blame for last season’s flop and not Dan McKellar who exited as head coach in June.
Summerhill in hunt for a new deal
AS he comes to terms with being unemployed, Aled Summerhill admits he has taken a gamble, but is standing by his decision.
Sponsorship deal will really help grassroots
THE news that the cabbage patch is to get a name change which will ensure increased funds for the grassroots game for at least four years, has to be a really good thing.
The matchday vibe in Bath was awesome
I DIDN’T play rugby until I was 16, I was swimmer for most of my childhood in Pembrokeshire and I played cricket but athletics was the big one for me – I threw the discus.
How the sun keeps shining for Spain
IT'S been an outstanding summer for Spain... and the good news keeps coming. Last month Los Leones embarked on a first-ever tour of the Pacific and recorded an historic 29-20 win over Tonga in Nuku'alofa, not to mention a narrow 34-30 defeat against Samoa in Apia the previous week.
RFU must learn from Olympic gold rush
THE Paris Olympics should have rammed home an urgent reminder to the RFU that English rugby has to invest in an equivalent of the World Class Programme that has underpinned the significant increase in the number of Olympic medals – especially gold – at the last five games.
Berry's briefest of brief encounters...
TEN summer Olympiads have come and all but gone since Marty Berry went off on a sprint which made Noah Lyles' in Paris the other night feel a bit sluggish.