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I'm More Than Just a Blogger

I have an extensive portfolio of writing produced in both professional and voluntary roles. Check out some of my work below.

Recent Blog Posts

Match play from Ashford Town (Middlesex) 2-0 Milton United, 18/04/26. Photo by Lillian Coates

Even more clubs leave non-League football

On Monday, I wrote about the decisions faced by the Football Association in terms of allocating clubs to the divisions of the non-League Pyramid and the fact that, as in 2024, there seemed to be a higher-than-average number of clubs withdrawing from the National...

Action from Ashford Town (Middlesex) 2-0 Milton United - Milton's last-ever match. Photo by Lillian Coates

The Quicksand Contagion

For the last couple of years, I have written from time-to-time about the increasingly parlous state of non-League football and in February 2024 I asked whether English football had a pyramid built on quicksand. Now, in May 2026 as another season concludes it is worth...

Ashford Town (Middlesex) lift their championship trophy, 18/04/26. Photo by Lillian Coates

Football, family and surviving the rollercoaster

If you’re as old as I am, you will know that ‘Life Is A Rollercoaster’ whether you want to or not, thanks to Ronan Keating’s popularity at the beginning of the Noughties. While the song would not feature on any of my personal playlists, I can get behind the idea,...