Toolstation NCEL Division One Harrogate Railway manager Mick O’Connell says refereeing standards need to improve at all levels. Controversy is following match officials around at the moment, with glaring errors happening at Premier League level and various levels of Non League Football. Many managers are growing frustrated and O’Connell is one of them. “I think read more→
Toolstation NCEL Premier Division Round-Up (2) Hemsworth Miners Welfare kept their survival hopes alive after winning 2-0 in the huge six-pointer with Albion Sports. The Wells simply had to win and the victory puts them two points behind Albion who have three games-in-hand. Club legend Nash Connolly smashed in the opener on the stroke of read more→
Toolstation NCEL Premier Division Round-Up (1) Luke Aldrich completed the dramatic turnaround as Eccleshill United came from the dead to keep their promotion hopes in their own hands. Eccleshill beat Staveley Miners Welfare 2-1 but they were 1-0 down with five minutes to go. Jordan Emery equalised and then striker Aldrich made himself the hero. read more→
Toolstation NCEL Premier Division James Burgess’ hat-trick helped Garforth Town’s cruise to an 8-0 victory at basement side Athersley Rec. Garforth are now back in second place, at least for 24 hours. Burgess, who has been some sort of Messiah since returning from Tadcaster Albion as his goals and assists have relaunched Garforth’s promotion bid, read more→
Toolstation NCEL Premier Division Round-Up Sean Hunter fired Knaresborough Town to the brink of safety by scoring the late winner in the 2-1 defeat of AFC Mansfield. Hemsworth Miners Welfare will now have to win all their remaining four games to overtake Rob Hunter’s Knaresborough. Danny Edwards broke the deadlock three minutes into the second read more→
West Yorkshire League Premier Division Mark Pitts wants to turn Carlton Athletic into a real force again in the West Yorkshire League. The highly-rated Pitts, one of the WYL’s most successful managers ever, won ten trophies inside five years in his first spell as Carlton boss, including the unprecedented three consecutive Premier Division title wins read more→
Toolstation NCEL Division One Round-Up Marcus Day completed Harrogate Railway’s dramatic turnaround in the 2-1 win at Dronfield Town. Mick O’Connell’s men only two more wins to secure a play-offs as results elsewhere went for them. But they nearly lost as Dronfield took a second half lead and were still in front until Joe Crosby read more→
There’s been some confirmed transfers in the Toolstation Northern Counties East League this afternoon. Both players who are on the move have returned to clubs they left earlier in the season. Young Charles Sheperd has left Hemsworth Miners Welfare and headed back to Steve Lenthall’s all-conquering Penistone Church. Penistone visit Maltby Main this evening. Defender read more→
Toolstation NCEL Division One Nostell Miners Welfare chief Ian Walker is on the hunt for a new assistant manager. The search commenced following Mark Pitts’ decision to return to West Yorkshire League Premier Division side Carlton Athletic as their manager. “Looking to appoint a reliable highly motivated assistant manager who shares my football philosophy for read more→
West Yorkshire League Premier Division Carlton Athletic have reappointed multi-title winning boss Mark Pitts as their new manager. Pitts leaves his role as one of Ian Walker’s assistants at Nostell Miners Welfare to return the club he guided to unprecedented three consecutive league titles between 2016 and 2019. He replaces John Moore who parted company read more→
