Frickley Athletic manager Dave Frecklington has committed to stay in charge at Westfield Lane until at least the summer of 2023. Frecklington replaced Craig Spink in September 2019 and successfully guided Frickley well away from relegation danger before the campaign was declared null and void. Until the current season was halted in November, Frecklington had read more→
Stocksbridge Park Steels manager Chris Hilton has slammed the Northern Premier League over their botched attempt to restart the season. The NPL announced at the beginning of last week that the campaign would remain on hold and be looked again after the Government’s review of the Tier allocations on December 16th. However, the following day read more→
Young Farsley Celtic pair Joe West and Eliot Goldthorp have joined Dave Frecklington’s Frickley Athletic. Defender West, who has made seven appearances for Farsley in the National North this season, is booked on a 28-day loan with Frickley. Midfielder Goldthorp, formerly of Bradford City, has signed for Frickley on dual-registration terms. Both deals are done read more→
Ryan Laight has returned to Stocksbridge Park Steels as first team coach after nearly three years away. Laight will be back working alongside assistant manager Lee Thompson and manager Chris Hilton. The former defender signed as player/joined at the beginning of Hilton’s reign in 2014. He then became assistant manager the following year and he read more→
Frickley Athletic manager Dave Frecklington backs a January restart so Non League players can enjoy Christmas with their families if restrictions allow. If Steps 3 to 6 football is granted permission to return following the lockdown, Frickley have four fixtures scheduled in December – with the Boxing Day battle at Stocksbridge Park Steels being the read more→
Ex-Sheffield United youngster Harrison Foulstone has joined Chris Hilton’s Stocksbridge Park Steels. Foulstone was with the Blades from the age of six until his release this year after being a regular in the under 18s. In all he was there 12 years. Initially he joined Gainsborough Trinity in September and played several times for Curtis read more→
Experienced Staveley Miners Welfare midfielder Sam Finlaw has joined Stocksbridge Park Steels. His arrival at Bracken Moor has helped ease Stocksbridge’s injury problems which see Joe Lumsden and Lewis Whitham on the treatment table. The move reunites him with ex-team-mates Michael Trench, Ross Goodwin and Stuart Ludlam. Finlaw is in line to make his Stocksbridge read more→
Northern Premier League Round-Up On loan striker Harry Jessop was once again the hero for Pickering Town who moved up to tenth after beating Brighouse Town 1-0. Young Jessop pounced on the half-hour mark after Wayne Brooksby hit the post. Pickering had plenty of chances throughout and the fact Brighouse’s on loan Manchester United goalkeeper read more→
Stocksbridge Park Steels manager Chris Hilton believes the FA need to start preparing to provide financial aid to Non League clubs if the Government orders another lockdown. Fears the country will follow the decisions of the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales in having a ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown are growing. That’s on top of the three read more→
NPL Division One South East Round-Up Somersaulting Luke Mangham led Stocksbridge Park Steels to a remarkable late and epic 4-3 win over leaders Belper Town at Bracken Moor. Chris Hilton’s Steels trailed three times and they were losing 3-2 with ten minutes to go when the former Garforth Town striker Mangham heroically intervened. Belper, managed read more→
