United Counties League

I'm having a look.

Sheffield FC are in the United Counties League.

Premier Division North, ninth tier in the pyramid.

Oh, nice.

I think it was like 13 or 14 minutes or something ridiculous like that.

We've all had those games, and I saw a game on the UCL Reserve Division at the weekend.

It's UCL, which is our local supply league here in Northampton, the UK, where...

You know, teams who are playing at step five, they'll have a reserve team who will play, you know, what you would probably call developmental football.

He noticed that the players didn't do the pre-match handshake, but then did hug and shake hands at the end of the final whistle, as he says, completing the gate in the pre-match efforts.

Also, in the Midlands, Mike Innes went to Rushton and Hisham versus Melton Town in the United Counties League with a crowd of 51 people.

He noticed that the money at the turnstile was being taken by someone wearing disposable gloves.

And he says...

So what did Ian Collins get an award for? It was 50 years, wasn't it? Yeah, he

showed quite a bit of turn of pace, didn't he, Ian Collins? he's a bit quicker than a few of the first team lads bless him Ian he's recently got two awards one of them from the United Counties League in recognition for outstanding contribution to football and the other one a really big one and I was actually invited to go to the presentation dinner we didn't know he'd won it we knew he was nominated unfortunately I was abroad at the time a couple of weeks back but we're delighted to say that Ian got his 50 years recognition from Derbyshire County FA for his service to football so phenomenal achievement 14 years at Gresley Rovers but many many years at Borough Victoria and other involvement in football he's known locally in and around the Derbyshire area as a a genuine legend.

That word gets bandied around quite a lot, but Ian is a genuine legend and somebody I get to call my friend as well.

So,

No, 'cause I've...

I mean, my history really was, like, um, the United Counties League and the Southern League Midland.

So we'd, we'd actually...

Ironically, we'd played Bridgwater when I was at Wellingborough, but we'd never been to Yeovil.