Five battling for Conference title

This season’s Blue Square Bet Premier title race is the most open for years, with all of the top five in with a realistic chance of lifting non-league’s biggest prize and returning to the Football League.

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Of Mice and Men

Even by the often unpredictable standards set by Cambridge United over the years, to sign an international goalkeeper on loan for just a month, even a relatively inexperienced one, only for him to not even be named as a substitute, seemed bizarre to say the least.

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Aspiring to mediocrity

It’s often said that the Blue Square Bet Premier is “a competitive league where everyone is capable of beating everybody else.” One variant of this mantra is that it’s a league steeped in mediocrity, full of ex-Football League has-beens desperate to regain their rightful place in League Two, with little to choose between them.

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Money makes United tick

The phrase ‘January transfer window’ tends to arouse little more than a passing interest at the Abbey Stadium, home of Cambridge United. Head Coach Richard Money, who took over in October, is working with a budget that belies his name and has focused on drilling a smaller squad into a lean mean fighting machine rather than importing reinforcements.

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Predict the score

Each on a Saturday morning I am going to predict the results for one of the leagues fixtures chosen at random in England. This week I am predicting the scores for the Blue square Conference Premier. A correct result is two points a correct score is one point.

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Lionel Perez: From the Mediterranean to Stevenage Borough

The lower leagues have never been blessed with too much Mediterranean flamboyance over the years, however Scunthorpe United, Stevenage Borough and Cambridge United do share a connection with one particular Frenchman, writes Simon Bourne.

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Conference Heavyweights Slug It Out In First Round of the Cup

Friday night sees the commencement of this year’s FA Cup 1^st round proper with every participating team no doubt hoping to reach at least the third round when the big guns join the competition and the minnows receive a welcome financial windfall.

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Hatters Snap Up Fleetwood

With last week’s deadline-day headlines dominated by Premier League clubs spending millions on improving their squads, astute transfers in non-league football went unnoticed.

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