by Chris Harris Watch a football match and, along with the passes, the saves, shots of the crowds, you see players gobbling onto the pitch. It is just an accepted and disgusting part of football. Yet, once you start noticing it, it becomes impossible to ignore, it is just rank. It’s down to the amount … Continue reading Why Do Footballers Spit And Why Don’t Other Sportspersons?
Category: General Sport
Non League National League: A Shifting View Part 2: Protecting the Brand of the Football League
By Chris Harris The second part turns the spotlight on the top end of the pyramid. Here the focus is on the EFL, why the Football League has resisted branding a formal Division Five, how its clubs protect their own status, and why the National League has become a fifth division in everything but name. … Continue reading Non League National League: A Shifting View Part 2: Protecting the Brand of the Football League
Non League National League: A Shifting View. Part 1: From Non League Independence to the Unofficial League Division 5.
by Chris Harris This first part looks back at how the old GM Vauxhall Conference saw itself long before anyone talked about “Division Five.” It traces the mindset, the culture and the independence that defined non-league football through the 1980s and 1990s — and how automatic promotion gradually reshaped ambitions, identities and expectations. It’s the … Continue reading Non League National League: A Shifting View. Part 1: From Non League Independence to the Unofficial League Division 5.
The Rights of Fans. 