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Keeping it real: lower-league football’s growing authenticity problem

Lower league fans

The idea of football becoming more “authentic” the lower down the leagues you go simultaneously patronises those fans and hinders modernisation

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Photo of the week ~ Saltergate, former home to Chesterfield

Chesterfield Saltergate

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The steady disappearance of sloped pitches is a sad loss to the game

Barnet Underhill

From Barnet’s Underhill to the Manor Ground of Oxford via Grundy Hill and Easter Road, pitches with a slope have become part of football’s folklore

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Photo of the week ~ Watching on at Ashton’s historic Hurst Cross stadium

Ashton 

Ashton United 6 Ramsbottom United 0, 12/01/2016, Hurst Cross stadium, Northern Premier League

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From the archive ~ How the old Wembley earned its worldwide affection

Wembley exterior

With the new Wembley now ten, here is Jeff Hill in 1999 on how its predecessor ingrained itself in football folklore despite its pomposity

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