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The Over Achieving Village Club - My Visit to Heacham.

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Early Starters. Heacham (stripes) & Soham Town Rangers heading out for the seasons first game. I said to the guy in the pay box at the Heacham v Soham Town Rangers game that the season’s start earlier, with a July game kicking off the new season. In reality it’s now the norm, this is the 6 th consecutive season I’ve been to a competitive game in July’s final Saturday. I’m not complaining, it’s nice to get a game for league points as there’s only so many pre-season friendlies with triallist after triallist you can enjoy. This season I started off in Norfolk in the Eastern Counties Premier Division a league I can’t remember ever attending a game in. The choice was mostly due to it being in the west of the county and therefore closer to my Midlands home. Heacham is only a couple of miles from Hunstanton and just past Kings Lynn, where the notorious Pullover roundabout is a great advert for train travel. The train taking the strain wasn’t an option today as Heacham doesn’t have ...
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Rush Job

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Alfreton Town's Relegation from National League North. The Impact Arena, The Solana Stadium or The Town Ground. Founder members of the Conference North with 22 years at step 2 or above in the non-league pyramid, the relegation of Alfreton Town coincided with the transfer of ownership to Will Rush. Like all relegations it wasn’t one specific detail that was the cause, but a combination of decisions, incidents and occurrences over the season. Here’s my review of 2025/26 and thoughts on why that relegation came about. The End Of An Era. On the 3rd June 2025 it was announced the club’s long running takeover got over the line with Wayne Bradley, who had been the architect of the club’s elevation to step 2 and for 4 seasons, the Conference (National League) Premier, selling the club to Will Rush a 27 year old American businessman who lives in Puerto Rico. Wayne was to remain a director of the club, which was stipulated as a condition of the sale by the football authorities. Despite...
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