Editing pages which have been on the website
for a while usually causes a few problems.
Also, details crop up which don't always
fit easily into the general pattern.
So, when new information comes to light,
it seemed best to simply put this into a
different section - and here we are ...
October 14th - I've put in a link to
the Spartan South Midlands League 1997-2011 section from here as a back up, because
the attempt to slot this into the South Region
proved abortive.
The Birmingham & District League proves to be unusual in that it continued
to run at the start of the Second World War.
Check out what happened.
The points system used in the Eastern Counties League in the 1976-1977 season was unique.
Find out more about it here.
The Midland League had a little-known subsidiary competition 1924-1925, clubs playing 50 league games in the 1929-1930
season when Scarborough were champions, and
was won five seasons in a row by Peterborough
United before the Posh joined the Football
League. See the final tables from 1925,
all Scarborough's league results 1929-1930 and every one of Peterborough's league results from the
1955-1956 season to the end of the 1959-1960 campaign.
The Conference started in 1979 as the Alliance
Premier League. Altrincham were the
first champions and retained their title
the season after. All Alty's league results for these two
seasons are now on site. The first Conference
side to win automatic promotion to the Football
League was Scarborough in 1987. All
Boro's league results and match attendances for the season are here too.
The Eastern Counties League was not the only
competition to have a 'different' points scoring system. See what happened in the Gola League/Conference
in the early 1980s in Conference 2 +.
The Leicestershire Senior League's history has caused a few problems, but at
least one mystery has now been solved, with
a little non-league soccer education thrown
in for good measure on the Leicestershire + page.
There remains much to be unearthed about
the leagues in the North East, but a bit of new information has come in
about the late 1970s and 1980s. See North East + to discover what this is. Two extra page have now been added, linked
to the North East + page, one giving a few
details about the Durham Alliance and the
other (Nthn Am + Comb) containing a number
of Northern Amateur League and Northern Combination
tables from the 1980s.
AND WHILE WE'RE ON THE NORTH-EAST -do
YOU have any information on the region's
leagues. The Bits and Bats 5 section
of the site contains quite a lot of detail
BUT THERE ARE GAPS. If you can help
fill these, please get in touch.
There will be more appearing in this 'extras'
section - it will depend what comes to light.
Visitors might have some ideas about that
... please contact the site if you have.
Early Southern League information has now
been added ... from the years when one member
of this competition won the F.A. Cup and
another reached the Final a year later.
There is a second page also, meaning coverage
here stretches from 1900 to 1920. Details
are in Southern +.
Many thanks to Ron Price for supplying Division
1 information for the years covered and I
am grateful also to the RSSF website for
details relating to Division 2 + summaries
of movements in and out of the League and
between the divisions.
