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Wrexham celebrate, but just don't forget The Dale
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 29/04/2023
» It is that nervy time of the year of promotions and relegations in the English Football League and a couple of contrasting stories in the lower divisions caught the eye last week.
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Happy days are here again
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 08/08/2020
» For three consecutive years, from 2013-15, the town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire was voted "the happiest place to live in Britain."
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Defiant England's fifth division finally succumbs
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 21/03/2020
» The fifth tier of English football, the National League, had the dubious honour of being the last professional league in England to play matches for the foreseeable future last weekend.
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Plenty of banana skins in FA Cup
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 04/01/2020
» Although the appeal of the English FA Cup is definitely not what it used to be, the third round is still one of the more eagerly anticipated weekends in English football.
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Stanley -- The club that refused to die
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 21/04/2018
» Accrington Stanley winning promotion to League One for the first time ever might not seem a big deal in a week which saw Manchester City clinch the Premier League title, but it is a huge occasion for a lowly, but long-established club that has never before experienced promotion from the bottom division.
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The Dale are on their way to Wembley
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 24/02/2018
» Although Wigan Athletic ending Manchester City's bid for the quadruple understandably grabbed all the headlines in last week's FA Cup action, it was Rochdale's battling effort against Tottenham that caught my attention.
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Day of reckoning for Monkey Hangers
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 06/05/2017
» Hartlepool United are one of those strange clubs, a bit like Accrington Stanley, which have achieved a certain status in English football because of their consistent lack of success.
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Glassboys, Spitfires chase Cup glory
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 07/01/2017
» Although the appeal of the English FA Cup has definitely waned over the years, the third round is still one of the more eagerly anticipated weekends in English football, especially for the smaller clubs who have already battled hard to make it this far.
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New look for England’s fifth division
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 01/08/2015
» With English football kicking off next weekend it might be appropriate to take a quick look at the sometimes forgotten fifth tier which has undergone a name change for the coming season.
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Fifa film tends towards the fantastical
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 13/06/2015
» If Sepp Blatter and his mates at Fifa had hoped that the release of its bizarre feature film, United Passions, promoting the wonderful deeds of Fifa, might have eased the pressure on their organisation, they are sadly mistaken.
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