My godparents live in Yeovil and have been watching them for decades. Very sad, but they've been 2 steps below the league a couple of times in the past and if they get their issues with bad ownership sorted they should bounce back.
I used to watch Bath City a lot in the 90s when I first moved to Swindon. Fantastic old-fashioned ground. Back then their fans saw Yeovil as the local rivals, despite hardly ever playing them. Do they still do that, or have Chippenham fully taken over as the object of ire/ridicule?
Yeovil still the rivals, a little bit Taunton Town, the Chippenham rivalry now called the A4 Derby is a bit of a new creation.
What happens if all the clubs that go down from the National League are southern and all the clubs that get promoted from the level below are also Southern, do a couple of the midland clubs swap from National South to National North?
Yes, they always move clubs from one division to the other rather than relegating extra clubs in one of the divisions. A few years ago Bishops Stortford had a stint in the Northern division because there was no-one else who could realistically move.
Is the northern league still at a higher standard? If I owned a southern club looking to push for the play offs that would realistically be mid table in the northern league, I would tell the league to do one
i remember when it was only 1 up 1 down to the conference it was always dag & redbridge and yeovil swapping places every season. Sad to see them go to the conference south, but always saw them as a little club punching well above their weight.
Could have sworn St Albans and Hemel are north of the M25 and Havant and Eastbourne were on the South Coast.
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Yep, you would think that an AI model would be able to actually work this one out. I have students using ChatGPT for assignments at work, and it's so obvious that they have used it.
Check the history books, Yeovils level is non league.
Scunthorpe United spent the first 60 years on their existence playing non league football. They were punching way above their weight in the second and third tiers.
I have a mate with a holiday home over here who is a Glovers fan. He was telling me the other night that the new people who have taken over the club have some serious money - however he remains sceptical.
Yeovil will be a huge draw for almost every team in national league south. Would be looking for them to take big followings for every game. Even Torquay coming back down will be good for the gate receipts.
Excluding Southend then aren’t many established southern football league clubs in non-league.
Here are the most northern football teams in the Vanarama National League South, listed in order of their latitudes:
Oxford City FC - 51.7361° N
Hungerford Town FC - 51.4146° N
Chippenham Town FC - 51.4584° N
Slough Town FC - 51.5092° N
Maidenhead United FC - 51.5225° N
Dartford FC - 51.4476° N
Tonbridge Angels FC - 51.1928° N
Concord Rangers FC - 51.5438° N
Hampton & Richmond Borough FC - 51.4383° N
Chelmsford City FC - 51.7322° N
Dulwich Hamlet FC - 51.4543° N
Eastbourne Borough FC - 50.7848° N
Welling United FC - 51.4658° N
Billericay Town FC - 51.6298° N
Bath City FC - 51.3829° N
Braintree Town FC - 51.8756° N
Havant & Waterlooville FC - 50.8634° N
Wealdstone FC - 51.6024° N
Hemel Hempstead Town FC - 51.7533° N
St Albans City FC - 51.7536° N
Eastbourne further north than Welling?
It's not in any sort of order that I can see. Looks like Braintree draw the short straw if a switch is needed.
From past seasons when clubs have been switched, the FA seem to extend the North division further south on the west side of the country than on the east. They more or less seem to do the traditional thing of drawing a line from the Severn to the Wash through Watford Gap, then shifting that north or south as required. The chatter among non-league obsessives is that they think Oxford City will be first in line if it's needed.
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Here are the most northern football teams in the Vanarama National League South, listed in order of their latitudes:
ChatGPT? Chat Nonsense
Yep, you would think that an AI model would be able to actually work this one out. I have students using ChatGPT for assignments at work, and it's so obvious that they have used it.
Scunthorpe United spent the first 60 years on their existence playing non league football. They were punching way above their weight in the second and third tiers.
'A horrible slippery slope' - Yeovil Town's fall from Championship to regional leagues
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65323414