The pitching in southern league

Reading City face back-to-back games after one of wettest Februarys on record.

Together with the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League it forms levels seven and eight of the English football league system. The structure of the Southern League has changed several times since its formation in , and currently there are 84 clubs which are divided into four divisions. Professional football and, indeed, professional sports in general developed more slowly in Southern England than in Northern England. Professionalism was first sanctioned by The Football Association as early as , but when The Football League was founded in its member clubs were based entirely in the North and Midlands , as the county football associations in the South were firmly opposed to professionalism. Woolwich Arsenal nowadays simply Arsenal were the first club in London to turn professional in and were one of the prime motivators behind an attempt to set up a Southern League to mirror the existing Northern and Midlands based Football League. However, this venture failed in the face of opposition from the London Football Association , and Woolwich Arsenal instead joined the Football League as its only representative south of Birmingham in

The pitching in southern league

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Notes: Click the result to display the match report. All fixtures with a pale yellow background are in progress and are not confirmed results. AFC Totton. Plymouth Parkway. AFC Telford United. Aylesbury United. Waltham Abbey. Beaconsfield Town. Flackwell Heath. Bedford Town.

The pitching in southern league

Salisbury missed the chance to go top as they were held to a goalless draw at Basingstoke Town, whilst Swindon Supermarine recovered from going a goal down early on to beat Didcot Town with four second half goals. A ninth minute strike from Seth Humphries put the visitors in front before an own goal from Adam Learoyd levelled matters early in the second period. Ten minutes later, Jake Andrews turned the scoreline on its head and then Ryan Campbell added a third goal with just over ten minutes left to play. Over in the Pitching In Southern League Premier Central, there were also just two games which took place and the day belonged to Berkhamsted who won for only the second time this season with a tremendous away win at Hitchin Town.

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The following season saw the two sections merged to form a Premier Division, and a new Division One introduced. Since the league's formation in , the following clubs have won promotion to higher levels of the English football league system -. Archived from the original on 13 September Division One Chatham. Two Southern League clubs, Southampton in and and Tottenham Hotspur in reached the final of the FA Cup around the turn of the twentieth century. Burnham FC. Retrieved 23 April Binfield FC. Bemerton Heath Harlequins. Retrieved 10 October Reading Royals Futsal Club.

The wet weather caused a number of postponements on Tuesday evening, but there was still plenty of intriguing action which took place.

Corby Town Gloucester City. Retrieved 23 April AP Leamington. Royal Artillery Portsmouth. Reading FC Women. Bromsgrove Rovers MD. Chippenham Town Leamington. Colchester United Gillingham. Binfield FC. From onward, the Southern League's status as a semi-professional league was firmly established. Histon Hednesford Town.