SOUTHEND UNITED have rehired Phil Brown as their manager with six games to go this season, but whether he fancies a stint in the National League remains to be seen. Southend would appear to have one foot in the non-league structure. They have hordes of unhappy fans, an unpopular target of a chairman and they […]
WHAT A pity that Sutton United’s night to remember was slightly tarnished by the behaviour of a few people who have probably never set foot inside Gander Green Lane before. Attention-seeking arrivistes hanging on the crossbar (which would cost the club significantly if it were to break), throwing punches and probably attempting to goad Arsenal […]
ANYONE who has circulated the Isthmian League over the years will know that Sutton United are a classy club. It helps that they’re in a relatively affluent part of the country, but they have always stood out for being a club that held onto the old amateur ideals of doing things the right way – […]
AND SO, the great and the good gathered at The Westbury Hotel, Mayfair (Game of the People has been doing well…) for this year’s awards. As the glasses clinked in the Polo Bar in Conduit Street, the cognoscenti decided upon the winners from a star-studded field. The GOTP awards do not necessarily hand plaudits to […]
Sutton United could well turn out to be the most value-for-money club in British football in 2015-16. The Surrey-based club, once one of non-league football’s top sides (remember 1988-89 and Coventry City?), has taken the bold step of introducing £99 season tickets to try and lure more supporters to their home games. I’ve been to […]
The newspapers love it when the FA Cup brings together an unusual club with a renowned cup-fighter from a higher level. And there’s none more unusual than FC Romania from the Essex Senior League who, in their first year in the competition, played host to Sutton United from the Conference South. It was a second […]
