(16 Apr 2015, 5:03 pm)Andreos1 wrote Reading the link I put up about Colin Richardson, it looks like his funeral will be held in the village.
Never heard that story. I know there was an imbalance of southern based teams elected versus northern based clubs being demoted.
The biggest imbalance comes at The Conference Regional Divisions partly because of the Northern League's unwillingness to fully play ball with the Pyramid...The imbalance really starts at Step 3, when the pyramid was started, there was supposed to be 2 Northern Leagues(Northern Premier League and Northern League) and 2 Southern Leagues(Southern League and Isthmian League), initially the Isthmian League opted out, and the Northern League were offered the chance to join in repeatedly, always saying No, by the time The Northern League were brought into the system it was too late to be at Step 2(now Step 3) and the Leagues above have been messed up at times, especially in the Conference Regionals i.e. Bishop's Stortford, Histon, Oxford City, Worcester and Gloucester in Conference North
Apart from Darlington and Spennymoor, Kendal is only team North of Harrogate or Scarborough Athletic at Step 4, so things like that does not help balance things out...