Match reports
Rovers 2-1 Ashford: Okoye’s late header keeps the title race alive
Ten-man Ashford held on until the ninety-third minute. Then a nineteen-year-old got to the byline.
Harbour City
Kwame Mensah
Match reporter. Files within an hour of the final whistle, rain or shine.
Match reports
Harbour City 0-0 Kingsbridge: a point that suits nobody
Two fine saves, one crossbar and a goalkeeping question for Harbour City.
Match reports
Millbrook 3-3 Northgate: the match of the season
Six goals, two penalties, a red card that was taken back and a floodlight that went out.
Match reports
Wanderers 1-4 Elmwood: four goals in twenty minutes
For seventy minutes, Castleford did everything right. Then their legs went.
History
The 1953 cup run nobody remembers
Miners, postmen and farm workers, three professional clubs beaten and 42,000 people at the semi-final.
Analysis
Home advantage is shrinking. Here is why
Better pitches, easier travel and braver referees. Twenty years of numbers from the Northern League.
History
When Harbour City played on the beach
For three seasons after the war, the pitch was marked out on the sand at low tide. One game ended in water up to the ankles.
History
Let there be light: how floodlights changed the league
Afternoon replays, a league that said no and one bright Wednesday night in 1956.
History
The matchday programme: football’s smallest magazine
From penny team cards to sixteen-page booklets, and why collectors pay hundreds for the rare ones.