The Alternative Football League and clubs such as Manchester Laces show demand is there but players still face huge hurdles to wider participation
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Battles of attrition and tedious timewasting in the lower leagues are increasingly a turn-off for supporters, whose entertainment is sacrificed for points
The History Press, £20
Reviewed by Pete Brooksbank
From WSC 427, January 2023
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Returning to non-League after 2020’s enforced absence heightened the senses of matchday, as told in this extract from the new book The Silence of the Stands
Pitch Publishing, £18.99
Reviewed by Huw Richards
From WSC 426, November/December 2022
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