Stamford 3-2 AFC Sudbury  (Southern League Central Division) I’m back at Stamford, after watching them last Tuesday at Harborough where I thought they did ok against high spending promotion pushers in 2-0 defeat, they since beat Worcester City 1-0 at the weekend, Jack Duffy scoring on his return, he had a 20 match ban after an altercation with a fan earlier this season, oh how the Daniels have missed him. Bottom of the table on 16 points, Sudbury are only a couple of places a

Harborough Town 2-0 Stamford  (Southern League Central Division) On Saturday, Harborough Town were beaten in the top of the table clash at Spalding United, a 3-1 defeat in Lincolnshire leaving the Bees nine points below the Tulips going into tonight’s match with bottom of the table Stamford, but with four games in hand. Ironically Stamford’s last game was also against Spalding at Christmas, the Daniels have had almost three weeks without a match following wintery postponement

Barwell 2-2 Quorn (Southern League Central Division) So that's it then. Over for another year. Christmas day flashes before our eyes and we're already thinking about 2026 , my wife has us already looking at summer holidays to Croatia. I got a whiskey smoking kit and a chargeable heated seat pad, the latter of which I will aim to use over the upcoming games, perhaps a bit overkill for today as it's not that cold out and I'm not entirely sure how it works yet, a bit of drizzle

Barwell 1-0 Banbury United (Southern League Central Division) Non league football can be confusing. Eight years ago Barwell were in the Northern Premier League. Just two seasons ago Banbury United were in the National League North, but here for a second successive campaign will the two teams do battle against each other in the Southern League Premier Central Division. I watched a 1-0 win for Banbury at Kirkby Road early last season. The return fixture was 2-1 to Barwell and

Quorn 3-2 Redditch United (Southern League Central Division) I played over 500 games as an amateur, I coached around 150 semi-pro matches and have scouted ‘officially’ including today 257 games exactly, but I only ever managed three matches, when completely left alone to my own devices. My first, was for Netherfield Albion against Westside, in the early 2000’s which we won 3-1 back in the Notts Amateur League, when I was helping out my uncle who was then Manager (he had some

Barwell 5-2 Stratford Town (Southern League Central Division) Formed in 1992 as a merger between Barwell Athletic and Hinckley, Barwell FC became Founder members of the Midland Alliance in 1994 where they joined Stratford Town in the division, and the two teams would play each other, at least twice, every season, until 2009/10 when the Leicestershire side would become champions, thus moving to the Northern Premier League Division One South. That same year, Stratford finished

Harborough Town 1-1 Spalding United  (Southern League Central Division) I’ve spent the day ranting on X to Miguel Delaney of the...

Redditch United 1-0 Stratford Town  (Southern League Central Division) Yesterday I was at Lords watching Middlesex v Sussex from one of...

Hitchin Town 0-3 Barnet (Friendly) Back in the day, July 1st meant back to pre-season, after putting the pounds on from your lad weekends...

Biggleswade Town 0-3 Oxford City (FA Trophy Round Four) Happy New Year. Finally, I'm back in the soccer saddle after a couple of weeks...

Barwell 0-1 Banbury United  (Southern League Central Division) Newtown Unthank is the home of Poundstretcher. It's the sort of useless...

Long Eaton United 2-1 Leiston (Southern League Central Division) I’ve had to google where Leiston is. Apparently in East Suffolk, a town...

Stamford 4-0 Mickleover (Southern League Central Division) Steve Cooper has been sacked by Nottingham Forest. It’s hard to put into words...

Long Eaton United 1-0 Berkhamsted (Southern League Central Division) Joey Barton's been causing a stir on X (Twitter) about women pundits...

St Ives Town 3-2 Royston Town (Southern League Central Division) It’s the start of a mad week of live football for me. A game tonight,...

Long Eaton United 0-1 Bromsgrove Sporting (Southern League Central Division) Interesting fact… For the last seven years my name has been...

Tiverton Town 2-4 Yeovil Town (Friendly) I’m in the West Country for a cricket game on Saturday so thought I would tie my trip in with a visit to Tiverton Town on Friday night, staying over at a B&B nearby it means I’ll be fresh for my journey to Somerset in the morning and I won’t be getting up at 5am. It’s pissing down in Nottingham, I’ve checked Twitter to see if the pitch is ok ahead of travel and no signs of postponement, so off I set at 1pm thinking I should be at the

Nuneaton Borough 1-0 Basford United (Southern League Central Division) I'm off to Dubai tomorrow. Monday night I was packing bags before...

AFC Rushden & Diamonds 2-1 St Ives Town (Southern League Central Division) A short history lesson for you… Rushden & Diamonds were formed...

Coalville Town 0-2 Nuneaton Borough (Southern League Central Division) I nervously raced home from the game on Sunday to watch England...