Another transfer window has come and gone and another obscene amount of money has been spent. A total of £815m was spent in the January window and if you add that to the summer window of £1.9bn it brings the total transfer figure to an astronomical amount of £2.715bn! A big chunk of that money will have gone out of our game to line the pockets of the agents, clubs and players and out of the UK in some instances. But, how much of it will go back to the grassroots clubs? The pl

What a landmark day for the fans of beleaguered Scunthorpe United. The Lincolnshire club who were on the verge of going out of existence with an HMRC winding-up order hanging over them along with the news from earlier in the week of an interested consortium pulling out of a potential takeover, things were looking very bleak, adding to the fact they were sitting rock bottom of the National League and without an away win for 25 months the trip to Halifax Town on Wednesday eveni

Scunthorpe United supporters invaded the pitch on 70 minutes at yesterday's National League game against Woking to protest about the dire situation at the club. Scunthorpe United were in the championship in 2010 and as recently as 2017 were on the verge of gaining promotion back to the 2nd tier. Their demise since then sees them sit rock bottom of the 5th tier and on the brink of going into administration and possible liquidation after being served a winding up petition by th

Hereford FC are the latest team to join the growing trend of community-owned football clubs after The Bulls supporters secured 50.1% ownership of the National League North side. Hereford United were originally founded in 1924, but were sadly wound-up in the High Court with debts around £1.3million in 2014 and owing HMRC £100,000 in unpaid tax. The Whites had been in financial difficulty since they were relegated from the Football League in 2012 and were then demoted two divi

One of the reasons we started Proper Football just over 18 months ago was because some of us had become disillusioned with football, yes, that may seem a bizarre thing to say and beggars the question, why set up a football page? Well, for those of us who follow teams in the Premier League or a yo-yo side in the Championship, since the birth of the Premier League on 27th May 1992 we have gradually seen our clubs which we have worshiped like a religion and have played a massive

It was great to see the fans flock in to watch their clubs over the holiday period in the lower leagues of the football pyramid, one big factor is the fixtures are planned so that doubleheader matches are scheduled for the Boxing day and New years day fixtures between local sides, something that has sadly been lost on the Premier League and EFL! Some of the stand-out attendances were in step 6 in the National League North and South. Darlington had a record attendance at Black

We all know football has the habit of conjuring up amazing stories, be it heart warming, emotional or freak results, just like Leicester City winning the Premier League, Wimbledon's Crazy Gang defeating the might of Liverpool to lift the FA Cup in 1988, 42-year-old Roger Milla coming out of retirement to score in the World Cup for Cameroon, David's beating Goliath's in the 3rd round of the Cup or Jamie Vardy getting an England call up just 4 years after playing non-league foo