Football Matters: A journey through a unique season of Kent non-league football

by Martin Cooper

Due to the pandemic lockdown, 2019-20 was a football season like no other, especially for English non-league clubs. Brought to a premature end, most leagues decided to null and void their completed fixtures, cancelling promotion and relegation, and thereby dismissing the season in readiness to start afresh next term. The only exception was the National League, comprising the two uppermost steps of the non-league football pyramid, which partially resumed in July in order to complete promotion play-offs.When Martin Cooper started a season-long journey around Kent non-league grounds, during the August 2019 summer heatwave, the extraordinary outcome was impossible to predict. The games he attended were full of passion and enthusiasm, with many of the sides striving for promotion or battling against relegation. Ultimately and unbeknown to all the fans, players and club officials, most of the matches counted for nothing in the end and this book contains insights and reports from a truly unique non-league football season.

164 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 20, 2020

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[Tim]

If you want to watch a Premier league game you most probably have to take out a bank loan This is why I content myself with clubs around my region It was also good to read somebody else's uptake on different grounds around Kent That I myself have visited over the years Along with match reports Well bar one where my old hometown club lost but also an amusing tale on why the author went all out to avoid the man on the turnstile some good chats with club volunteers the life and soul of non league clubs It was a shame the season that was wrote about was brought to a shuddering halt due to covid 19 and the following season even shorter So here's hoping season 21/22 manages to go the whole way As I would enjoy an new edition on the subject of non league football in Kent