KoolSport Northern Counties East Premier Division

Shirebrook Town 0 Rainworth MW 4

A quick geography lesson. Shirebrook and Rainworth are opposite sides of Mansfield.


What the more observant of readers will notice is the absence from this map of the metropolis of Leicester. This is because it is a good hour away from Rainworth, and approx 60 miles from Langwith Road, Shirebrook. So why then is it that the PA was blasting out the latest from the Hit Parade courtesy of Leicester Sound ...
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KoolSport Northern Counties East League Premier Division club Scarborough Athletic wants to return home, and is proud to announce the launch of a scheme to help achieve just that.

The `Back2Boro` fund has two main objectives: continue to raise awareness of the club's lack of permanent home, and to raise funds to help finance the return home to the borough of Scarborough.

Athletic have been playing their football at Bridlington Town's Queensgate Stadium since formation in 2007, when Scar...
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When Nigel Jemson put pen to paper for Rainworth on Saturday the 40-year-old became unquestionably the biggest 'name' player ever to join the Wrens, and the first ever Rainworth player to have previously figured regularly at the highest level of football in England.

Spotted by Brian Clough while still a trainee at Preston North End, Jemson joined Nottingham Forest in 1988 and, after three successful years at the City Ground was sold to Sheffield Wednesday for £800,000.

He later f...
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After an unplanned sabbatical, we're back on the road. Tonight, with something akin to midweek planning, there's a pub stop en route. The Beehive in Harthill may not be a bustling joint, at least not at 6pm on an autumn Tuesday evening, but I've been in worse pubs. Much worse.


The ubiquitous pint of Strongbow with a deceptively spicy chicken curry with home made naan, puts the lie to this being an sort of CAMRA-affiliated blog, but rest assured, it set your belov'd author up for the night. ...
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