By Chris Harris Anyone who was at Leylands Park on Saturday (3/1/26) for the Burgess Hill vs Lewes game, and who’d been to Leylands Park before, couldn’t have failed to notice that this is a club on the up. I hadn’t been for a few years. Back then, they’d just been relegated into the Isthmian … Continue reading A Lesson Lewes FC Can Learn from Burgess Hill Town FC: Club’s Going in Opposite Directions.
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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. 