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An incredible rise from the lower regional league to the Bundesliga. Elversberg: The tiny town looking to defy odds in Bundesliga Back in 1998 I doubt Gary Blissett guessed both the Bees and Elversberg would be top flight sides.

Maldon and Tiptree games this weekend postponed by Isthmian League as they are rumoured to be heading for liquidation. Statement: Maldon & Tiptree

Player has to be under 23 when transferred for training compensation to apply. This appears in confirmation when international clearance is granted.

Christ, they don't help themselves. The whole point of the hugely expensive rebranding exercise surely was that the carefully chosen colours and fonts were accompanied by league and regional logos on social media posts.

I would hazard the consultants didn't fully think through such eventualities or implications on clubs with larger fan bases. Clubs were asked how many they needed. A request for 120 to cover 25 named shirts for squad x 3 for all three kits...

Although, oddly, the sleeve patch to be worn by all clubs will be the generic regional leagues logo below, not the specific league one. A lot of FA money has been spent on this project accompanied by a lot of consultant agency speak of brand...

Spotted watching Fisher at Cobham yesterday in the FA Cup. His son Craig is manager at Cobham and doing a decent job.

The ankle injury at the end of the play off game put off suitors over the summer as it needed surgery and the poor lad did the other ankle in his first game back pre season and had surgery again yesterday. Cant see him playing till late...

Full Draw Match No. Round Home Team Away Team 1 1 Dartford v Hanwell Town 2 1 Cockfosters v Wingate & Finchley 3 1 AFC Croydon Athletic v Harlow Town 4 1 Haringey Borough v Harrow Borough 5 1 Petts Wood...

Signing for newly promoted step four side Punjab United this season at the age of 39

Came out in early hours: 16th Aug Eastbourne United (h) 23rd Aug Worthing (a) 30th Aug Aylesford (h) 6th Sept Hammersmith (a) 13th Sept Barking (h) 20th Sept FA Cup 27th Sept Newhaven (h) 4th Oct FA Cup 11th Oct Dorking Wand (a) 18th Oct Sutton...

“On or before 20th July” So I’d guess after seven tonight when the league volunteer gets home from work!

FWIW on this trip he'd still be covered if it had been in said fountain. The football players are covered whilst under the control of the respective member association for official international “A” matches of the “A” representative team...

That would not be considered a self inflicted injury and the operative time covers the accident so his wages are paid for under the scheme.

If the chatter this week is correct, the nomadic SE Dons have now secured their own lease (obv at far far higher rent) on the ground and will play there this season in the league VCD would have been in had they kept going.

The midweek fixtures this season are Brentford v Ashford Town - to be played by 31 Oct Ashford Town v Brentford - to be played by 1 May First batch of Sunday fixtures (usually covering till October) released by 20 July. Season starts 16 Aug.

There's two or three who might realistically hoped to have been in a different region and may have originally applied for a lateral move. Whether they did or not and whether they are going through an almost certainly futile appeal only they know...

To be fair, although allocated by the FA Leagues committee, the constitution of the league isn't actually ratified until the LSERWFL AGM on June 29th. Any appeals of league allocations are yet to be heard - although they almost always fail.

Beat Columbia in Bogota 4-0 and then flew to Quito to beat Ecuador 2-0. On then flying to Mexico, they had another five hour stop over in Bogota when Bobby Moore was arrested for the "stolen" bracelet incident and held for four days.

League allocations next season: