Have you seen 'The English Game' on Netflix - was a good watch, well I enjoyed itInteresting article from 10 years ago about professionalism and the founding of the league:
https://www.thenational.ae/sport/football-s-working-class-roots-1.524211

Have you seen 'The English Game' on Netflix - was a good watch, well I enjoyed itInteresting article from 10 years ago about professionalism and the founding of the league:
https://www.thenational.ae/sport/football-s-working-class-roots-1.524211

the hotbeds of football used to be the north west, north east and the midlands. now apart from a few exceptions its now inside the M25.

In the current 4 league divisions there are 11 clubs from within the M25 and 16 from what was Lancashire!
Old habits die hard.![]()
as it seems that the season is about to be finished anyway it does seem a pointless decision to dock em any points. just cannot see a side being pushed down into non league football without a full season of games are played anyway. that is no matter how they end up deciding league positions anyway. losing your football league existance is far worse than any relagation from any division can be. ask fans of stockport, hartlepool , chesterfield and the others what losing their league club means to them.

Here’s one possible answer to Stanley’s training ground problem!
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/property-79676602.html
What's the story behind that I wonder? Who/what has gone into administration? Obviously not Morecambe FC or we'd have heard about it ….
Their fans expect the land to be bought to be converted into another caravan park
Outback Ozzy; And let's face it said:the biggest joke is that they used to call the north east, the hotbed of football. there was actually a book written in the late 50,s with that title. there is now only one top flight club up there who have struggled for years. lost league clubs at gateshead, darlington and hartlepool. now you have a possibility of the other two playing in the third tier of the game. hotbed, more like dead end to me.
The north-east is still a hot-bed of football, with great fans and clubs at all levels.
do not know anything about the mags as i,ve never seen them since being a kid. however fans of all other clubs up there are far more fickle than stanley fans. when sunderland are losing its like a morgue there with walk outs from half time onwards. a few bad games and results pools fans stay away in thousands and the boro lot blow hot and cold very quickly.
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