Non League Yorkshire
Non League Yorkshire has come a long way in just three years.
For a site that started off in 2013 covering four or five clubs, it has grown to be a one-stop place for news from clubs in the region in the bottom few tiers on Non League Football.
I do not run the website as a full-time job and very little sponsorship is received over the course of a year.
The site is run myself with the help of some fantastic contributors who provide match reports from their particular club. Information from games at the levels that the site covers can often be at a premium so reports are very much appreciated.
I do not spend the whole of my Sundays, writing and uploading reports. The order of reports is decided by the information available. For the next eight weeks, reports will be sporadically spread out across Sundays and Monday due to family and personal commitments, so please patience.
In the summer, I also made the editorial decision to reduce the number of manager interviews that are published on a Friday, along with the coverage of midweek games.
This has had a knock-on-effect. Although a different ground has been visited on every Saturday so far, the coverage of most of the Yorkshire Evo Stik clubs, and a handful in the NCEL, has been limited. This is nothing personal, it has just been physically impossible to get to the clubs concerned.
However, recently some people have gone too far. Inflammatory text messages to my personal mobile about editorial decisions regarding the games covered, combined with an encounter with three arrogant match officials who are a disgrace to their profession and should be ashamed of themselves, has tainted the enjoyment of running the site.
I’m a volunteer like everyone else and I don’t spend far too many hours working on the site to get abused. I shouldn’t go to bed on a evening wondering what kind of hassle I am going to get about Non League Yorkshire during the following day.
Please have a bit of understanding and let’s hope the growth of the site continues for years to come.
And if you’re an official of a club and you want to get news or reports on Non League Yorkshire, contact us via social media or by email
James Grayson 21/10/16
info@nonleagueyorkshire.com