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Opinion
The 2013-14 Season Review
You can now ‘like’ Sports Performer on Facebook. Click here to ‘like’. The favourites may have lived up to their billing, but the 2013-14 season has still proved to have been an unpredictable year for our Yorkshire clubs. From shock sacking to unlikely reinstatements, sensational appointments and drama on-the-pitch, the Evo Stik Division One North read more→
The Sports Performer 2013-14 Team of the Season
So the time has come to reveal sportsperformer.net’s Team of the Season. As regular readers to the site will know, Sports Performer reports on the Yorkshire teams in the Evo Stik Division One North and the Premier Division and Division One of the Toolstation NCEL. The players that make the Team of the Season and read more→
Opinion: Bill Fotherby will make things happen at Ossett Town
By his own admission Bill Fotherby “makes things happen” and his track record proves he does just that. The man who played a key role in returning Leeds United to the old First Division in the late 1980s and then turned Harrogate Town from nobodies to one of the top Non-League clubs in West Yorkshire read more→
Local knowledge or NCEL experience is the decision for Glasshoughton
The Glasshoughton Welfare committee meet this evening to discuss the way forward in depth for the first time since Rob Hunter’s shock resignation last Saturday. It is decision time and there are three questions that have to be answered. One: Who will take charge of this weekend’s trip to Armthorpe? Two: Should we appoint internally read more→
Jimmy Eyles deserves chance at Bradford Park Avenue
Jimmy Eyles’ assent to Conference North level has been coming for a long time. Eyles has been a revelation ever since he stepped his foot inside Ossett Town over a year ago. His goal against Farsley AFC in January 2013, which can be seen on Youtube, cemented his place on the rising stars list. A read more→
Unlikely victories after managerial changes
Ossett Town are not the first team to record an unlikely victory after managerial departures. Here are some examples of clubs winning in extraordinary circumstances. Salford City 1-4 Harrogate Railway – 31st March 2012 – NPL Division One North Nigel Danby had been sacked after a string of poor results and Railway had appointed Denis read more→
John Reed’s appointment is a sensible and safe decision by Ossett Town
Once as John Reed applied for the Ossett Town manager’s job he was always going to be leading contender and he has beaten off stiff competition to get the nod. Reed’s pedigree as a Non-League Football manager is well-known. Apart from his last number one role, at Goole, it has been success, success and more read more→
Craig Elliott has to be given time to succeed at Shaw Lane Aquaforce
Simon Houghton was ousted after just one blip during his seven months at the helm of Shaw Lane Aquaforce. The club want promotion into the Toolstation NCEL Premier Division this season and his successor Craig Elliott has 13 games to make that dream a reality. It is going to be a tough ask because Cleethorpes read more→
Evo Stik and NCEL clubs well-placed to cope with potential fixture pile-ups
The Southern Leagues may have a case for extending their seasons because of the recent poor weather conditions down South, but the NCEL and Evo Stik Leagues do not have an excuse to do that. Last season both leagues had no choice but to add an extra seven days into season. This year, until the read more→