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Life during wartime: how the Second World War exposed football’s regional divides

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Despite its ability to raise public spirits, maintaining a coherent league programme proved problematic between 1939 and 1945 – and not just because of the constant threat of air attack

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Referees’ tolerance of foul play annoyed fans and blighted 1950s matches

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Restrained use of yellow cards by officials meant any caution was headline news but that attitude was not always for the good of the game

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“Every day is a battle”: Jason Brown on dealing with mental health in football

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Jason Brown played in the Premier League but over recent years has struggled with depression and anxiety, and now wants to become a counsellor

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Lincoln back but plenty to be decided on National League’s final day

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York could drop to the sixth tier for the first time, while Maidenhead eye the South title and Salford and Halifax challenge for the North play-offs

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Grimsby back in the League and indulging in optimism

After six years in non-League the Mariners pulled together under Paul Hurst

4 August ~ “Clap, clap, clap, clap… Fish!” is still reverberating around my head a couple of months after Grimsby’s play-off final victory and return to the Football League. It doesn’t seem over six years since I wrote about going to work past the street named after Mariners legend Jackie Bestall and how he would be turning in his grave as we slipped into non-League. There is a whole generation of Grimsby fans (my own boys included) who had never experienced promotion, only relegation.

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