The summer of 2018 marked the end of the “Oldest Local League” in the UK. After 125 years the Maidstone and District Football League(M&DL) finally closed its doors for the final time. In its final year, the league operated one division with just eight teams and three of those were planning to quit at the […]

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“I don’t need to tell you this is a massive game for the club and whilst it’s only three points available, for the committee and the supporters this is one of the biggest games of the season.”  Those were the words of Phoenix Sports Manager Paul Bryon in his programmes notes ahead of their big […]

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Crisis, what crisis? Ashford United is a football club that from the outside can look like that they’re always lurching from one crisis to the next. Despite a Championship and promotion-winning campaign in 2016/17, just two games into the current campaign, Danny Lye, the manager who led them to the title last season, was gone along […]

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