Can any Non League footballers who started at Liversedge say they have a tortoise named after them or that they finished their career playing upfront with Michael Owen? Dan Toronczak is the only person who can put his hand up for both claims. But there is far, far more to his Non League career than read more→
BILL FOTHERBY, Mr F or Mr Fotherby as John Reed would say, left an indelible mark on anyone he met and by his own admission he made things happen. For Harrogate Town Fotherby certainly did. He took over at the struggling NPL Division One club on the 1st March 2000 and turned them into one read more→
Inseparable Paul Foot and Gary Bradshaw are never far away from each other so it is fitting that the former is the latest subject of our Non League Journey interview series. Inseparable could be a word also used to describe Foot’s love affair with North Ferriby. From what started as a chance conservation with Brian read more→
Gary Bradshaw is North Ferriby’s greatest striker and one of the best in the history of the Northern Premier League. Bradshaw was the league’s most feared marksman his heyday. Rightly so as he hit over 200 goals under ten years to become Ferriby’s record goal-scorer. The striker, who is back at reformed Ferriby for one read more→
Paul Pettinger is possibly the only goalkeeper in the country who can say he made his Football League debut for one club as a right winger. That is just one story of many from Pettinger’s ten-year League career – a tale of hard luck as he had to play second fiddle to first choice stoppers read more→
Andy Brooke was a defender’s nightmare. Not the opposition’s, his own! Brooke terrorised his Worsbrough Bridge and Garforth Town defensive team-mates during his ten-year Non League playing career by continually shouting instructions during a game, earning the unofficial title of ‘world’s loudest goalkeeper’. But on a serious note, Brooke was the very reliable stopper for read more→
The Athersley Rec story is a remarkable one. It should be bottled up and given as a blueprint to all Non League clubs as one to follow. Clubs claim to be community clubs, but in reality they are not. Athersley, founded in 1979, truly are. Developing local players has been at the forefront of the read more→
DANNY MCLAUGHLIN will not be a name familiar to Non League fans who have only followed the game in the last ten years. During the late 1990s and 2000s, versatile McLaughlin came through the youth system at Halifax Town and went onto be a semi-regular for Ossett Town, Liversedge and Bradford (Park Avenue). He also read more→
Spectacular goals, lots of red cards and plenty of fights are littered throughout Shane Kelsey’s Non League Football career. The new Athersley Rec manager has retired at least twice, but Non League Football has always lured back the attacker, who openly admits he was a loose cannon in his early doors with Worsbrough Bridge. But read more→
DUNCAN BRAY’S Non League journey began with FA Cup fever at Emley as a 16-year-old and ended on a major high after guiding Pontefract Collieries to their first promotion in 19 years as joint manager with Nick Handley. Along the way he scored tons of goals, upset a few rival fans with some theatrical falls read more→
