Following another of the realignments by the Football Association, two of Nottinghamshire’s finest, both in the same town as well, were laterally moved during the summer, Retford United and Retford being moved from the Northern Counties Eastern League Division One, to the United Counties League Division One. Here the Nottingham Sport catches up with Badgers…
A depleted schedule of non-league football across Nottinghamshire this past weekend saw but a handful of games played, whilst there was no action for local sides resident in the Central Midlands Alliance Premier divisions. Both Worksop Town, and Basford United, picked up draws in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, whilst Carlton Town’s home game…
Ryan Hindley’s Retford United continue to challenge at the top end of the Northern Counties East Division One, the Badgers continuing to push for what would be a second successive promotion. This past weekend, at home to lowly Athersley Recreation, the hosts were in devastating, first half form, an opening forty-five which saw them register…
Derbies, on Boxing Day, it’s what grassroots football is all about – the drama, the excitement, the last-gasp winners…. And there was plenty of that across Nottinghamshire’s non-league this past Boxing Day, a good half-dozen local dust-ups played out across the Northern Premier, Northern Counties East, and United Counties leagues. In the NPL it was…
Ahead of Boxing Day’s ‘Retford Derby’ both Chris Woodhead (Retford) and Ryan Hindley (Retford United) celebrated milestones with the respective clubs, with victory in the Northern Counties East Division One, on Saturday afternoon. The Choughs will host the derby, and they sit eleventh in the table, sandwiched between Louth Town and Harrogate Railway Athletic, Woodhead’s…
There’s three Nottinghamshire clubs in the Northern Counties East League Division One this season, Ryan Hindley’s Retford United having been promoted following their Central Midlands North success last time around to join neighbours Retford, and Ollerton Town. Following a plethora of new signings, the Badgers made their NCEL One bow, with a home fixture, against…
Nigel Clough took a strong, experienced, Mansfield Town squad up to Cannon Park on Tuesday night as Northern Counties East Division One newcomers, Retford United, hosted the EFL League Two side in front of more than a thousand spectators. It was always going to be a tough ask for the non-league side, but they held…
“Objective achieved. Now people will see how good Retford United really are; don’t write us off for back-to-back promotions.” Badgers manager, Ryan Hindley, May 2023 Badgers boss, Ryan Hindley, who took the helm last summer and has guided the Cannon Park outfit to the Central Midlands League Premier North title, and with it, promotion, has…
Title number two is heading to Nottinghamshire as, following Dearne & District not winning away to Staveley Miner’s Welfare (finished goalless), Retford United have been crowned champions of the Central Midlands League Premier North. Ryan Hindley’s side didn’t play on Saturday, but they did enjoy a 5-0, home, derby win, in midweek, against SJR Worksop;…
Retford United 5-0 SJR Worksop (Central Midlands Premier Division North) 22.03.23 Ryan Hindley’s Badgers are nearly, so very nearly there, following a 5-0 demolition job of local rivals, SJR Worksop, in the Central Midlands League Premier North, on Wednesday night. The main goal for the Cannon Park side was to gain promotion, something which they…
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…
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…
There’s two, incredible, runs, going on in the Nottinghamshire non-league scene this season, at both Worksop Town (Northern Premier League East) and Retford United (Central Midlands League Premier North). Worksop, in winning 2-0 away to Pontefract Collieries, stretched their league record to twenty-three matches, and in doing so, shot-stopper Sebastian Malkowski, and his wall of…
A midweek, mid-season goalless friendly, at home to Louth Town, of the Lincolnshire League, followed by their first game of 2023, away to Harworth Colliery, reintroduced Central Midlands League Premier North side, Retford United, following a winter break. The win, against Harworth Colliery, sees Ryan Hindley’s Badgers open up a fourteen point gap at the…
Although still a couple of games shy of the half-way stage in this seasons Central Midlands League Premier North title race, Nottinghamshire outfit, Ryan Hindley’s Retford United, have certainly been firing on all cylinders. Granted they exited the CML Cup, in late September, when losing 3-2 at home to league rivals, Dearne & District, that…
The opening, Extra Preliminary Round, of this seasons’ Emirates FA Cup, would take centre-stage for clubs across Nottinghamshire on Saturday afternoon, with contrasting fortunes when compared to those on league duty. Two victories, and three replays, from the six cup ties involving Notts clubs, was a decent return, both AFC Mansfield, and Kimberley Miners Welfare,…
After a 5-1 thumping of Basford United in midweek, Notts County continued their fine start to pre-season on Saturday with a 2-1 win at Leicester City in a game played behind closed doors at the Foxes state of the art training complex in Seagrave. In glorious sunshine, Head Coach Luke Williams started with a strong…
Holding legendary status at one sporting establishment is testament enough to an individuals’ ability, to hold that status at several places certainly adds the gloss, and is something which the new Retford United manager, Ryan Hindley, knows all too well. A playing career that had seen him don the jersey, on several occasions, at Nottinghamshire…
Nottinghamshire FA Senior Trophy winners, and Central Midlands League North runners-up, Retford United, are looking for a new manager after Liam Kay announced, unexpectedly, that he’d departed the club, on Wednesday (15 June) night. Kay, who’d enjoyed a successful couple of years, on-field, with the Badgers, is understandably down-heartened by his decision to leave, but…
Newark Town 0-1 Retford United (Notts Senior Trophy Final) 10.05.22 The top two clubs in this seasons’ Central Midlands League North collided for the Notts Senior Trophy on Tuesday night at Greenwich Avenue, and it was to be league runners-up, Retford United, that would emerge victorious, defeating the league champions, by just the one, second-half…
