THERE have been black players in the professional ranks for almost 120 years but it is only since the mass Commonwealth immigration of the 1950s and 1960s that there have been significant African-Caribbean numbers in league football.
HERE a committed (and maybe he should be) Spireite gives us a superb insight into the hardship that goes into following your team when circumstances have meant you've become estranged from the team you support
I'd heard about Telford's troubles a year ago; their largesse had become both legendary and unsustainable but until my recent Summer visit to the home of the new club AFC Telford United I'd not kept myself up to date.
The countdown has begun to the release of the fixtures for the 2005/06 Coca-Cola Football League season to find out how the fixture list is produced read on