My Grandad’s Game

“It’s really important to tell their stories and I’d love to hear grandad’s story, and he wants to do it,” Vicky McClure, 2023. Eighty years ago, the D-Day Landings took place on the beaches of Normandy, France, among them, a promising young footballer, Ralph McClure, of Collingham Footway, the Meadows, in Nottingham. Fast-forward eighty years,…

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Cargill Joins Stags

Mansfield Town boss, Nigel Clough, has continued with his strengthening of the Stags back-line with his second, defensive signing, of the summer window, bringing in centre-half, Baily Cargill, from the now, League Two side, Forest Green Rovers. Winchester-born Cargill spent a number of years on the books at South Coast outfit, AFC Bournemouth, having finished…

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NTU In Plate Final

Despite losing to Mansfield Town in the League Cup, it’s been a reasonably decent season on the field for Emma Dennis and her Nottingham Trent University charges. A fourth place finish in the East Midlands Women’s Regional Football League Division One Central, and opposition for Loughborough Foxes Vixens in the Plate final, is just reward…

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Basford Back North

Promotion, relegation, reprieves, and lateral movements, has been the name of the game for those powers-that-be at the Football Association over the past few weeks, they sorting out all those comings, and goings, in the non-league system. As Notts County were promoted, via the play-offs, to EFL League Two, this past weekend, it now means…

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Notts Are Back

It’s official… You didn’t dream it… The Notts are going up! Saturday’s drama somehow miraculously surpassed that of even the semi-final win against Boreham Wood, the agony suffered from going behind, the joy of a late leveller, the jitters and nerves as penalties approached, that winning moment, that Panenka, oh no, that winning moment again……

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