This is a place to talk about clubs playing in what might be described as lower-level non-league football. It takes its cue not only from Third Rate Lezhno's North West Counties League thread but also the geographically wide-ranging County Cups thread which bubbled along during the latter half of the 2012/13 season. If you do no more than keep an eye on a particular local league or club, please be assured that you therefore meet this thread's requirements for participation.
As for me, my patch is in and around OTF's least favourite North Bucks new town, where teams participate in either the United Counties League (UCL) or the Spartan South Midlands League (SSML). The UCL covers an area from Buckingham and Milton Keynes in the south west through Northants and up to the Wash and Boston; the SSML looks south from MK down through Hertfordshire to North London.
In 2013/14 there will be 3 clubs from the wider MK area in the UCL, including the highest-level local side (Newport Pagnell Town, who play in the Step 5 UCL Premier Division). In the SSML there'll be no fewer than 9 teams, with two new additions coming into the Step 7 Second Division -- Willen FC have rather taken local observers by surprise by moving up from the MK Sunday League, while village team Grendon Rangers have long been among the big guns in the North Bucks & District League.
As for me, my patch is in and around OTF's least favourite North Bucks new town, where teams participate in either the United Counties League (UCL) or the Spartan South Midlands League (SSML). The UCL covers an area from Buckingham and Milton Keynes in the south west through Northants and up to the Wash and Boston; the SSML looks south from MK down through Hertfordshire to North London.
In 2013/14 there will be 3 clubs from the wider MK area in the UCL, including the highest-level local side (Newport Pagnell Town, who play in the Step 5 UCL Premier Division). In the SSML there'll be no fewer than 9 teams, with two new additions coming into the Step 7 Second Division -- Willen FC have rather taken local observers by surprise by moving up from the MK Sunday League, while village team Grendon Rangers have long been among the big guns in the North Bucks & District League.
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