Basford United 3-2 Bamber Bridge (Northern Premier League) 12.10.24 Basford United claimed a hard earned three points during an exciting afternoon’s non-league football at Greenwich Avenue as Martin Carruthers returned to the dugout with victory over Bamber Bridge. Carruthers watched his side give away a two-goal lead before a last minute own goal provided the…
Worksop Town 1-2 Prescot Cables (Northern Premier League) 08.10.24 Worksop Town lost only for the second time this season as they missed the chance to go a point behind Northern Premier League leaders Macclesfield in a home defeat to Prescot Cables at Sandy Lane. In the rain it was a game they should never have…
It wasn’t the result Worksop wanted as the Tigers of United left without roar the home of King’s Lynn Town on Tuesday night, the Linnets progressing after an FA Cup third qualifying round replay went the distance. Little separated the two teams over 120 minutes, as did little separate the two in the original tie…
Bank Holiday Monday usually means non-league derby day and making the short trip down the A610 were Ilkeston Town, ready to face cross border rivals Basford United at Greenwich Avenue in what has recently became quite a new rivalry in the Northern Premier League. So short, is the nine-mile difference, some supporters of Ilkeston Town…
Saturday afternoon in the Northern Premier League Premier Division was certainly a case of ‘Brilliant Basford’ and ‘Roaring Tigers’ as the pair concluded their respective league campaigns in style, and with a pair of clean sheets to match as well. Basford, who just recently confirmed their place in the Premier Division for next season, cruised…
The games are coming thick and fast as the Nottinghamshire non-league scene crashes towards its eventual conclusion, and it was good news for the county’s clubs at the top of their game, favourable results going the way of Worksop Town and Basford United in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, and to Carlton Town in…
The run-in, it’s getting interesting across the Nottinghamshire non-league scene following Saturday’s round of matches with Worksop Town continuing their push for a play-off spot with victory on the road in the Northern Premier League Premier, whilst Carlton Town are in a similar position in the NPL East after a battling win in the north-east….
Ilkeston Town 4-1 Basford United (Northern Premier League) 20.01.24 Less than six miles separates Basford with Derbyshire neighbours Ilkeston, but heavy defeat in the Pitching In Premier Division has former Robin, James Jepson the United Manager and his side now a massive fourteen points below their ‘nearest’ league rivals locally, hovering dangerously above the drop…
There’s been a busy off-season thus far at Greenwich Avenue, manager Steve Kitterick putting his stamp on the side that will take its place in the Northern Premier League Premier Division next season. A number of new signings, the club having struck whilst the iron was hot at the end of last season, and seven,…
Liam Hughes and his Worksop Town team-mates have reaped their just rewards for a successful, last campaign, in the Northern Premier League. A season in which saw manager Craig Parry’s Tigers romp to the NPL East Division title, with a record-breaking season, Hughes would be the foremost name at the recent, league awards night. In…
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…
Where, oh where, does one begin, following an exciting day for Nottinghamshire’s flagship, non-league sides, on Easter Saturday? Basford United picked up a big win in the Southern League Central Division, as did Carlton Town in the Northern Premier League East Division; the NPL East champions, Worksop Town, created history when stretching their unbeaten run…
Record, equalled, as Craig Parry’s Worksop Town moved to 32 games unbeaten on Saturday afternoon, seeing off second placed Hebburn Town, 4-1, at the Windsor Foodservice Stadium, and with it, their hundredth goal of a stunning season. A record that has stood since the early seventies (fifty years on 24 February) is now, very much,…
“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…
There’s no stopping Craig Parry’s Worksop Town side, is there? A 6-0 win on Saturday, when home to Shildon, kept their advantage at the top of the Northern Premier East at ‘just’ twenty points, and sealed a top five finish, at least, for the Nottinghamshire side. It was a result that not only marked an…
Record-breaking Worksop Town have certainly enjoyed their start to the current campaign, eventually – a 19-game winning streak, a club, and league record, wasn’t looking that way at the start of the campaign. The Northern Premier League East Division leaders, boasting a fourteen-point advantage on second place Stockton Town, and a sizeable, twenty-one points, on…
Hebburn Town 1-6 Worksop Town (Northern Premier League East Division) 12.11.2022 The superlatives continue to fall at the boots of Notts’ high-flying Tigers, the Northern Premier League East side having moved up to second in table, following a destructive, attacking display in the North-East this weekend, taking out Hebburn Town with a 6-1 win. Gareth…
Grimsby Borough 1-2 Carlton Town (Northern Premier League East Division) 19.08.22 Brad Wells and Martin Ball were on target as Carlton Town picked up their first win of the season with a 2-1 success at Grimsby Borough. The win was fully deserved as the Millers created and spurned a hatful of chances before Ball’s late…
Carlton Town 0-2 Ossett United (Northern Premier League East Division) 13.08.22 Second half goals from Oliver Fearon and Ify Ogoegbu saw Carlton Town suffer a disappointing 2-0 opening day defeat at home to Ossett Utd. The Millers could have no complaints about the result. In a match played in almost unbearable heat, the visitors looked…
A sixth placed finish in the league, thus missing out on the play-offs, on the last day of the season, was not what they wanted, or even expected, last time around, this time though, it’s all change at Carlton Town, and maybe not quite for the better. Following a league restructure by the Football Association,…
