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Here's Caroline's latest masterpiece folks, enjoy:

 

From: Non League [mailto:NonLeague@bbc.co.uk]

Sent: 27 January 2009 16:31

Subject: This week...free to use article from the BBC Non League Show

 

I am currently thinking of any excuse I can to get out of travelling to AFC Wimbledon this weekend, and failing. Chances are, as you read this, I

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I watch penalties with my back to the pitch, secretly promising never to do a bad thing again in my life, to care for the elderly, the sick and the infirm, and to get up for anyone who shows a slight sweating of the brow on the train.

Greg Dyke - Did you also pick up on this bit of the article, when a spot kick is awarded to the home side at Braemer Road do you also 'watch it' with your back to the pitch.
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This weekend Chelmsford City take on AFC Wimbledon in what
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There's a bit of a twist to this weeks article folks as in the e-mail from Caroline you are able to see which Club's it goes out to, interesting that Wader said he receives it but I can't see him or Biggleswade Town on the distribution:

 

From: Caroline Barker

Sent: 04 February 2009 09:00

To: Gravesend and Northfleet FC; Dover Athletic; Kingstonian FC; Tooting and Micham FC; Tilbury; Park View Rangers; Leatherhead FC; burtonalbionfc; Bromley FC; Waltham Forest; Slough Town; Molesey FC; Folkstone Invicta FC; Croydon Athletic; cambridge-united; crawley-townfc.com; Hayes FC; Enfield Town; Enfield FC; Corinthian Casuals; City programme; Aylesbury Ducks; Cray Wanderers; Billericay FC; Ashford Town; Ashford FC Middlesex; Leyton FC; Chatham Town; Walton and Hersham FC; Fanborough FC; Bishop's Stortford FC; Potters Bar Town; Flackwell heath; Chelmsford City FC; Ashford Middlesex; Wingate and Finchley FC; Whyteleafe FC; Mertsham; AFC Wimbledon; Maidstone United; Hendon FC; Harlow Town; Great Wakering Rovers; Fisher Athletic FC; Blythe Spartans; Braintree FC; Tonbridge Angels; Maldon Town; Cirencester website; thamesmead; Welling United; Hornchurch FC; Borehamwood FC; Redbridge; Harrogate Town; bognorfc; Thurrock FC; Margate FC; Rhodes, Cliff Mr; Heybridge Swifts; Dulwich Hamlet; Metropolitan Police; Cirencester Town; Walton Casuals; mike kirwin: FC UNITED; Hampton and Richmond FC; East Thurrock United; exetercityfc; David Shadbolt; Carshalton FC; Wealdstone; Waltham Abbey; Stevenage Borough - Roger Austin; Hyde; Woking FC - Andy Morgan; Sittingbourne FC; Vauxhall Motors; hednesfordtown; Ilford; Yeading FC - Tim Fuell; Witham Town; Staines Town; Dartford; Grays Athletic - Press Office

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Living in a Non League world and I am just a material girl.

 

How much would you pay to watch your team in action? A fiver, a tenner? Twelve pounds fifty? Why do I ask? Well one wag suggested this week that you should pay however much you think it

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If grassroots football is to survive the current financial climate then giving value for money has to be at the top of the list. Cheap concessions often come with full-price adults, so why not allow kids in for a quid? Gates of 500 or more on
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Folks - Here's Caroline's latest masterpiece, enjoy:

 

From: Non League

Sent: 11 February 2009 11:14

Subject: This week's article

 

In the week when the so-called professionals of the footballing world sack Tony Adams and Big Phil (I appreciate why he hates the nickname that can be now used in the headlines "not so Big Phil") there has been a little celebration down Non League way.

 

Garry Wilson, boss at Eastbourne Borough, celebrates a decade in the job this weekend if, that is, the heavens conspire to hold the weather off.

Wilson, along with his assistant Nick Greenwood and his coaching staff, is one of a rare breed who has stayed committed to one club and they, in turn, have remained true to his vision.

 

It was back in February 1999 that Eastbourne appointed their new man and since then they've gone from the Sussex County Championship Division One to the top flight of Non League football.

 

Over that time you'd imagine there have been wobbles of affection (which relationship doesn't hit a little rocky patch?) although given Wilson's assertion: "It's not all about me, it's been a great 10 years for the football club," you do get the feeling this is a love affair without a kiss and tell.

 

Wilson gushes over "10 years of enjoyment" and the fans are equally gushing about their "knight in shining armour". But the real test for me is that Wilson has remained in spite of promotions, enjoyment and obvious success.

 

Last season alone the world of Non League saw the likes of Lee Sinnott leave the fold for football league management only to return a few months later or, more recently, the much documented move of Nigel Clough. There's no doubt that with better players in the grassroots game currently there is also a better wave of "Gaffers" ready for that step-up.

 

Managers at Non League level may also be better qualified and often more ambitious than their counterparts a couple of leagues higher. Over the past few months I've lost count of so-and-so-here and such-and-such-there who are taking their coaching badges whilst juggling a job outside of football and managing at the weekends.

 

Perhaps therefore it's best if Eastbourne keep a little quieter about their Prodigal Son's next ten years in power, rather than draw attention to the fact their own rough diamond may just about be ready for a polishing. Here's hoping it's with promotion for the Borough.

 

The BBC Non League Football Show

Every Monday from 9pm via www.bbc.co.uk/nonleague Real Football, real fans.

If you've got a story email the team nonleague@bbc.co.uk

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

 

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YIDARMY - Caroline keeps churning them out week after week, I don't know how she does it

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great post!

Samuelsmiles - YIDARMY doesn't appear to agree with you.
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Yidarmy - It's fill your boots time again, enjoy:

 

From: Caroline Barker

Sent: 18 February 2009 09:19

Subject: This week's article

 

 

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What a surprise she glossed over the revelations about the power struggle going on at her own club (Chelmsford City) and the accusations of them living well beyond their means with an external audit demanded by the Chairman apparantly ousted in a coup?

 

Nothing much to report here, move along please.

 

Perhaps next week Caroline you could tackle overpriced sausage rolls in non-league? Pah!

 

 

 

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