Basford United hit Sporting Khalsa for a big six in the First Qualifying Round of the FA Cup on Saturday. The Ambers beating the West Midlanders from Willenhall 6-1 at Greenwich Avenue, a stunning display of attacking football from the Northern Premier League side. Jordan Hallam got Martin Carruthers men underway with an 18th minute…
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 football may nearly be over-and-done with, in fact some clubs and leagues have already wrapped up their respective season and preparing for the upcoming play-offs, but there’s still a bit to be played for. In Nottinghamshire, that is still the case with several clubs, although Worksop Town’s hopes of making the Northern Premier League…
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….
It was another, weather-depleted weekend of non-league action in Nottinghamshire this past Saturday, although there was plenty on show – football not rain, in the United Counties League, and plenty of goals to boot. In the Northern Premier League Premier Division, Worskop Town were beaten 4-2 at home off Bamber Bridge, the two level at…
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…
It’s tough this Northern Premier League lark with Worksop Town, looking for another promotion, picking up another win to keep themselves in the mix for the play-offs whilst Basford United sit just above the drop zone, with sides beneath them having games in hand. Worksop narrowly picked up three points when hosting Ashton United, Jay…
Heading into the New Year and several Nottinghamshire clubs are vying for contention at the top of their respective divisions with Worksop Town (NPL Premier) and Carlton Town (NPL East) at the forefront of the promotion stories. Both won on Saturday to continue their respective promotion charges, as did Basford United to strengthen their battle…
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…
Non-league football returned across Nottinghamshire on Saturday with goals aplenty, along with wins for Worksop Town and Carlton Town in the Northern Premier League, as well as that of Sherwood Colliery, Clipstone, Radford and Dunkirk et al, in the United Counties League. Arnold Town continued their recent upsurge in form in the Central Midlands Alliance,…
Where do you begin – defeats for Basford United and Worksop Town in the Northern Premier League, a rare loss for Northern Counties East side Retford United, and a hammering in the cup for SJR Worksop. On the flip side though, Carlton Town won, thanks to a Niall Davie hat-trick, and United Counties Premier North…
Worksop Town’s reward for their 3-2 home win over Boston United in the FA Cup, is s trip to EFL League Two leaders, Stockport County, in the First Round, early next month. Craig Parry’s side were made to battle before seeing off their National League South visitors but, with Liam Hughes leading the line, you…
The FA Trophy, Notts FA Senior Trophy, and the United Counties League KO Cup, took centre-stage across Nottinghamshire’s non-league scene on Saturday afternoon, amidst the usual excitement, and disappointment, for the county’s sides. Newark & Sherwood United were the afternoon’s top-scorers, progressing to the next round of the UCL Cup with a convincing, 8-0 win,…
Back during the 1997-98 season, Worksop Town’s FA Cup run came to a sticky end in the Third Qualifying Round when they lost 4-0 at Croft Park, the home of Blyth Spartans. Fast forward a little over quart-of-a-century, and the new-look Tigers, well-guided by manager Craig Parry, exacted revenge, but at the second time of…
Worksop Town will have to do it all again if they are to continue their FA Cup run this season, following a 1-1 draw up in Northumberland, against cup specialists, Blyth Spartans, whilst in the league there was success for Basford United, and defeat for Carlton Town. Goalless at the break in Blyth, it would…
A late flurry for Craig Parry’s Worksop Town saw the Nottinghamshire-based side reach the third qualifying round of the FA Cup on Saturday afternoon, when away to Lincoln United. Goalless as the game headed towards the final ten minutes or so, the Tigers turned the outcome on its head with a late, three-goal flurry thanks…
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…
One in, one out, in the United Counties Division One play-offs after Newark Town lost their semi-final, away to Birstall United, on Saturday afternoon, whilst Hucknall Town, thanks to the heroics of goalkeeper Louis Kinnerley, defeated Bourne Town on penalties. At Birstall, in front a 400-strong crowd,, the hosts raced into a three-goal, first half…
Bank Holiday madness ensued in the Nottinghamshire non-league scene this Easter Monday, and we’re not talking the heart-breaking, five-goal thriller, between Wrexham and Notts County; further down the pyramid, albeit in just seven games, there was some twenty-five goals scored. Goal machine, Ben Starkie, smashed a brace to ensure Basford’s safety; Worksop scored another four…
