The 2024/25 season of the Central Midlands Alliance League is well underway, most clubs having already played around half-a-dozen or so matches with two Notts-based clubs leading their respective divisions. Linby Colliery Welfare head up the Premier South, with seven wins and a loss from a busy August, whilst Mansfield Hosiery Mills Blue head up…
Blidworth-born, Ernest Coleman, took less than 25 years to rise from his day of birth, in January 1908, to the top of British football’s First Division, with that of London club, Arsenal, in the 1930s. A goal-scorer of the highest order, there is one club that probably regretted, for many years, not signing Coleman as…
The aftermath of the Second World War would see the Home Nations, as well as countries right across the globe, rebuilding their lives as best they could; the pastime of football was one such way and it was to be the same in the Nottinghamshire colliery town of Linby. Initially formed in the late 1800s,…
Cup finals and play-off drama has been the main feature across the Nottinghamshire non-league scene over the past few days, with the Central Midlands League having two cup finals involving local sides. Midweek would see the Abacus Lightning Floodlit Cup between Sherwood Colliery Reserves and Retford United, whilst a lazy Sunday afternoon had Linby Colliery…
The Buckingham Insurance Central Midlands League Challenge Cup last sixteen draw has been made today with plenty of Nottinghamshire teams involved as they bid to cement a quarter final place. Amongst the ties Linby Colliery Welfare of the Black Dragon South Premier Division face Derbyshire’s Staveley Miners Welfare of the North Division whilst struggling Southern…
