Love the FA vase and the FA Youth Cup would be great to get them done. My last FA Youth Cup match was semi final in 2008, Chelsea v Villa. Great to see Bolton thriving with Nathan Delfouneso leading the line, the guy looked a gem in that semi but has had the grit to grind out a career. Mark Albrighton, Nathan Baker, Keiron Clark and Barry Bannan all had good careers.

My mistake 2019 saw Hamlet beat CVPM and then get wiped by Forest Green Rovers in front of a crowd of about 300, a very good crowd for youth football, bit like the FA Cup Hamlet had already played 4 qualifying rounds & had a walk over in the first rnd v Crawley. Good atmosphere despite the result & because it was mainly friends, family & hard core fans probably the most diverse crowd I have seen in a football stadium. 

Two great competitions for lots of reasons 

-- Edited by Oakland2002 on Saturday 6th of March 2021 03:37:21 AM

Brutal ruling. Compounding some ridiculous decisions.

No other businesses are being punished in this way for a pragmatic approach to managing their finances and protecting their fans from COVID, indeed in my view the National League played on too long in front of fans at the beginning of the first wave, voted with my feet from mid Feb 2020.

All the penalties are ridiculous but singling out Dover in the National League and effectively punishing them twice with a fine and points deductions is particularly unjust when the National League North & South clubs have no points deductions.

With the voting structure so heavily weighted in favour of the National League Sides as opposed to one member one vote for those in South & North I cant see Turkeys voting for Christmas.

As an organisation they have demonstrated that they are not fit for purpose surely the primary role should be duty of care to all its members. It was only as result of sensible decisions made by teams in the regional divisions that forced their hand to suspend the leagues. There is obviously a big difference in what is considered a sustainable model for non league sides, having seen the two clubs I follow (from childhood) Worcester and since a student Dulwich both requiring community rescue and now looking in rude health I have a fairly fixed view but accept there are others.

To punish clubs for the dithering of the NL management committee and the rational for doing so is beyond reason, the management committee should be accountable time for change?

Barwick walks before he is pushed. EGM vote of no confidence to go ahead, but unlikely to pass.

Town get the lead after dominating. Close to our first major trophy! Ok so we are a league club in a non league cup but we werent when the final should have been played so we will take this.

And so Harrogate won the FA Trophy. Biggest in the clubs history, strange one though. And the 2021 final is in 3 weeks time. At least as H will win again as it is Hereford v Hornchurch