Stourbridge 0-1 Needham Market  (Southern League Central Division) Stourbridge FC are 150 years old this year. Formed in 1876 they are nicknamed the Glassboys due to the areas long link to the cut glass industry, and they play at the brilliantly named War Memorial Athletic Ground in Amblecote, a village in Dudley Borough which is one mile directly north of the town centre of Stourbridge near Birmingham. I’ve never been here, until today, and I have never even seen Stourbridge

Alfreton Town 2-2 Buxton  (National League North) Tonight’s Derbyshire Derby is massive. If Buxton win, they will probably be in the playoffs, if Alfreton lose, they will most likely be down, a winner takes all opportunity? Would it be wise to predict a draw? In actual fact, nothing can be decided tonight, the two teams have a game in hand on most around them, ahead of the final two weekends of the National League North season, but victory means bridging the gap on those abov

Tamworth 0-1 York City  (National League) It’s that stage of the season where it either matters a lot, or it matters not. Whilst winning or losing today might not make much difference for Tamworth Football Club it means everything to York City who are heading their head-to-head battle with Rochdale in the promotion race to decide who gets to go back to the Football League. Top of the table York have 101 points and have scored 109 goals and they are two points above Rochdale w

Boston United 0-1 York City (National League) I'm off to a tulip festival on Saturday. Call it a compromise. The things you agree to do with the wife after working Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and having the rest of the Easter holiday weekend off. York City are gunning for the league and are bidding for promotion back to the 92 after ten years outside, but they are three points behind leaders Rochdale who they play on the last day of the season. Earlier in the week fans camped

Cleethorpes Town 2-1 Stockbridge Park Steels (Northern Premier League) It was former Grimsby Town midfielder Tommy Watson who formed Lincolnshire Soccer School in 1998, they would soon become LSS Lucarly before changing their name to Cleethorpes Town in 2008, Watson still to this day involved in mostly coaching the club's juniors. Since changing names a third time, the Owls have rapidly risen up the divisions from winning the Lincolnshire League and both Northern Counties Ea

Alfreton Town 1-0 Chorley (National League North) It's the business end of the season and time is running out for Alfreton Town who are down in the relegation places and fighting for survival in a division they have been in since 2015. Cut adrift it all looks a big ask if they are to stay up with seven points needed to gain even a punchers chance of keeping at the weight they are currently at, against Chorley tonight, they take on a team with little to play for but pride and

Leicester City 0-1 Brighton & Hove Albion  (Women’s Super League) I got back at 11:45pm which I didn’t think was too bad after leaving Hampden Park shortly after 7. The boxing on the radio ensured my drive south would go quickly, well done to Moses Itauma, is he really the real deal? The clocks have gone back, so I’ve lost an hour as I take the dog for a walk on Sunday morning, the wife has gone to stock up at her monthly Boots shop, I do get chance to at least have a cuppa w

Scotland 0-1 Japan  (Friendly) I’ve cut short my enjoyment at Albion Rovers to beat the traffic and head down the M73 and M74 towards Hampden Park from Coatbridge, I’m wanting to get there a couple of hours ahead of kick off so I can park up in a little spot I know which has a decent exit strategy for getting back home to England 'more' quickly. My last viewing of Scotland was ‘that match’ against Denmark. I said to myself the journey was too long to keep doing but the money

Albion Rovers 0-1 Clydebank (Lowlands League) I've got a bit of time on my hands today ahead of Scotland's match with Japan later this afternoon so I'm thinking why not check out some potential games I can attend? Amongst them, Albion Rovers are at home to Clydebank in a 1pm kick off and the town of Coatbridge where Albion play is just twenty minutes from Hampden, pretty much enroute from Dundee, so an easy decision made, I'm out of my hotel for 11am and back down the A9 pas

Scotland U21 0-0 Czechia U21 (UEFA U21 European Championship Qualifiers) The price of fuel is going up, but my road trips seem to be getting longer, something probably has to give, it's time perhaps to stay local for a while, but before that, I'm travelling to Scotland, to cover the national team in both U21 and full internationals this weekend. The U21's are in Dundee tonight and the only ever previous time I have been in the city was when passing through on a train to cove

Morecambe 2-3 Hartlepool United (National League) Boston to Morecambe is just short of 200 miles so it's another lengthy road trip East to West between fifth tier stadiums as less than 24 hours do I watch one National League match between two evenly balanced teams, do I take on another viewing, between two with varied ambition this season. Morecambe are in a relegation battle after a turbulent couple of years, the Panjab Warriors expected bigger and better upon their late ta

Boston United 2-2 Altrincham (National League) It was a tale of two penalties the last time these two teams met earlier in the season at Moss Lane. Jordi Hiwula missed his spot kick for Boston on 32 whilst only four minutes later Elliot Osborne scored his, to give Altrincham a 1-0 home win in November. Tonight's game is likely to be another tight affair, Boston in thirteenth are a point above Alty in fourteenth but the Pilgrims did get beat 6-2 against Carlisle at the weeken