Four, was the magic number, in the United Counties Premier North on Saturday afternoon, with Kimberley Miners Welfare, when hosting Newark & Sherwood United, in a local dust-up, shared eight goals, in a 4-4 draw. The first half, it belonged to the visitors, goals coming from Kian Sketchley, Ainsley Finney and Luke White, in the…
“The first one is on the board, now let’s get the next one.” Worksop Town manager, Craig Parry, after winning the league title with the Tigers. Mid-March, and the Tigers of Worksop Town have become the first, crowned champions in the country, following a destructive, 4-0 win, over visitors Tadcaster Albion, it coupled with second…
Stockport County 1-1 Mansfield Town (EFL League Two) 18.03.23 Nigel Clough and his Mansfield Town charges left Edgeley Park on Saturday night with their promotion aspirations still in their own hands, battling to a hard-earned point against fellow promotion-chasers, Stockport County. The Stags, they’ve been a little erratic of late, but this was to be…
The Archers are preparing to host ‘100 Games at Lady Bay’ this coming weekend, when they welcome RFU Championship leaders, Ealing Trailfinders. It’ll be the one hundredth game in which Lady Bay has hosted at the ground, since they moved there from Meadow Lane at the beginning of 2015, and current Head Coach, a former…
Northampton Town 1-0 Mansfield Town (EFL League Two) 14.03.23 It was a bad night in Northampton in midweek for Nigel Clough’s Stags, but it could have easily been much worse at the Sixfields Stadium. One red card (Stephen Quinn, midway through the second) could easily have been two, on any other day, following visiting Stags…
“The Caesars have a huge opportunity to win the division this year and I am enjoying being part of the coaching team, and bringing some new ideas to the defensive side of the ball.” Laura Moore, 2023 Having played both codes of rugby, Union with Nottingham/West Bridgford, and League with the Nottingham Outlaws, Defensive Coach…
They’re nearly there; having come so close to promotion last season, Retford United, of the Central Midlands League Premier North, are but a handful of wins away from doing so this time around. Twenty-three points clear, with a few games left to go, the Badgers are in a more than promising position, and, to help…
Neil Matthews’ Arnold Eagles, bottom of the East Midlands Women’s Regional Football League Premier Division, will contest this season’s League Cup final, with high-flying Lincoln United, after the Eagles avenged their previous weeks’ loss, to see off Oughtibridge War Memorial, 4-3. Another Nottinghamshire club, Daniel Corlett’s Nottingham Trent University, of the EMWRFL Division One Central,…
There’s been plenty of changes, on, and off the ice, at the Nottingham Panthers around this, the 2022-23 season, one of those seeing them bring in, late last year, a new media team, to which includes 18-year-old, Sophie Rouse. It’s been a somewhat meteoric rise for the Bramcote, Social Media Executive because, less than a…
Not for the first time in recent months, the non-league scene, nationwide, was severely depleted due to adverse weather conditions, and so it proved across Nottinghamshire, only a handful of games getting the go-ahead. Basford crashed to defeat in their Southern League Central match at home to Barwell, whilst the two games to go ahead…
The Archers picked up just their fifth win of the season at the weekend, Craig Hammond’s Nottingham side claiming a hard-fought, 28-17 win, on the road at Richmond. It was to be a victory that pushed them back up to the ninth in the RFU Championship table as sides prepare themselves for the final throes…
It’s been another, roller-coaster season, for Beeston Hockey, but it’s been one that has, yet again, seen them qualify for the play-offs. Among their ranks is the experienced, central midfield athlete, the 24-year-old, Paige Gillott, someone who continues to strive to achieve, in every capacity, but it could have been so, very different for her,…
‘This was the decisive moment when …’. You can apply your own ending. It’s the time of year when that sentence starter gets rolled out by football punters and fans alike as they try to read the runes taking us to the end of the season. The first weekend fixtures of March gave us plenty…
Eight goals scored, joint second in the table, and just thirteen points now behind leaders Aylestone Park, Luke Parsons’ Newark Town are flying in the United Counties Division One at present. At home to lowly Rainworth Miners Welfare, the Blues only led 2-1 at the interval but, in the second period, turned on the style,…
Nottingham Forest captain, Lyndsey Harkin, will lead her side out at the Pirelli Stadium, against Watford, on Sunday 23 April, after she led by example to book the Reds’ place in the final of the FA Women’s National League Cup, in devastating fashion, following a 5-0 win at home to Portsmouth. A tight, first half,…
The true meaning of a six pointer comes to the City Ground on Sunday. It’s a must-win for Everton and Forest must avoid defeat. Coming off a frustrating 4-0 loss to West Ham, in which Forest showed signs of their pre-World Cup form, collapsing after they conceded the first goal. Truth be told, it was…
Recent weeks has seen several, young Stags, either appear on the bench, or on the pitch, of Nigel Clough’s EFL League Two side, Mansfield Town. This alone shows that the future is bright for the club with the likes of defender Taylor Anderson (earning minutes against Carlisle United), and the duo of forward McKeal Abdullah,…
“Pinch me, it don’t feel real.” Mary Earps, Paris, February 2023 European Championship winner, two-time Arnold Clark Cup winner, the first ‘keeper to reach fifty clean sheets in the Women’s Super League, and now, Nottingham-born, Manchester United shot-stopper, Mary Earps, has been named the best in the world. The Lionesses number one, who was born…
Everybody has their favourite player at their club, there’s no denying that statement. More often than not, it’s either the captain, the forward, the playmaker, or the hometown favourite come good; one of those, the latter, is also a forward for that of the Nottingham Panthers, 23-year-old Nottingham-born centre, Jordan Kelsall. Having been born into…
‘A week is a long time in politics’ goes the famous saying, reflecting the fast pace of change in Westminster circles. What with revelations, reputations tarnished and resignations, you wonder that there’s any time left for governing! The same can be said about the world of football: so much gets packed into a week full…
