Isthmian League

'Cause they're playing, they're taking on the mighty Enfield Town next week.

Top of the league, Isthmian League.

2-1 win, last minute winner tonight.

Listened to the commentary of that, all 115 of us, so fantastic.

[laughs] Now, again, I'm not getting carried away because, as I said before, you're only as good as your last game.

We've got a tricky FA Cup tie next week, away to a decent Isthmian League side on a small ground, and that ain't gonna be easy.

And given Yeovil's recent history in the FA Cup, where we've been on the end of giant killings rather than handing them out, we've got to stay switched on and focused because they have absolutely nothing to lose, and that makes them dangerous.

Finally, I'd just like to say what an absolutely fantastic piece of business this week in securing the services of Ryan Jones until the end of 2029 season.

if you go back far enough.

Uh, the previous one was Jordan Young on the 14th of November, 2023.

Um, we've also scored seven hat-tricks in the Football League and eight in the Isthmian League, so there you go.

Can always rely on Nigel for a few statistics.

There are more cup games to come.

I believe the draw for the Isthmian League, um, or the Isthmian Cup, I should say, and the Combined Counties Cup have both been made over the weekend.

I understand, although I haven't seen it confirmed yet, that we've got Enfield away, um, Pen and Tyler's Green away, um, respectively.

Um, so that would mean, looking at the fixture list as it stands at the moment, that we've got five consecutive away matches before we play again at the SCL Stadium.

They're obviously all tarnished from a sporting point of view, but from an emotional point of view, they exist and they will continue to exist.

But his argument was about the next generation of City fans, and they're going to get to be the ones hurt by this because if they are expelled from the Premier League and they have to drop to League Two or even worse for them, if the EFL refuses to take them in and they drop to the National League North, and just imagine if the National League said no and they're in the Isthmian League or Manchester County's League or whatever, his argument is that will hurt them in the future.

So he doesn't think they should be relegated.

Now, we massively disagree on this.

Get used to it.

I took in some Isthmian League action on Monday night, Eastbourne Borough taking on Carl Shorten.

It was good to see Craig Eastman, midfield maestro, dominating midfield once again.

But yeah, good game that was and lots of good games to look forward to this weekend, as always.

Um, you were, you were one of a number of players who followed, uh, Brian Hall to Yeovil from Wealdstone midway through the '86, '87 season.

If the history books are correct, we were playing then in the Isthmian League, which was a level below where Wealdstone were at the time.

Was it simply the manager that sold the move to you, or...

And, and what can you tell us about your first impressions of Yeovil, and what potential you thought the club had?

Henry Winter.

And you just think, well, Leicester are about to get relegated to the Isthmian whatever they are.

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City have been cooking every book going, and it, it, I ju- it's just exasperating, isn't it? Because-