OK, so Gateshead let me down. Useless plastic Geordies. Still, I'm not one to hold a grudge, and I've no problem accepting Alty escaping our attention next season. They've beaten Chester, Boston and York in the play-offs to earn the right to be one of the dozens of teams that hopefully take 6-points off Kings Lynn next season.
I'm already looking forward to seeing Boston's new ground next Christmas. It's not THAT far out of Boston, but it seemed almost as close to Kettering. Of course, this is providing the ground has been completed. And we don't have a second spike. And fans are allowed into stadiums. And we're permitted to travel anywhere.
I'm less keen about visiting York's new ground, because, let's be honest, 99% of the attraction of this away fixture is spending time in the City Centre before and after the game, and not travelling miles to an out-of-town plastic ground, from where the mighty Minster is a distant notch on the horizon.
Heading in the opposite direction to Kings Lynn and Altrincham are Chorley and AFC Fylde, who will take their place amongst us National League wanabees. I don't know how long it's been since we regularly played Chorley, but I can't think of them without the words "80's Conference fodder" following closely behind. As well as "Coming in your ears....!"
As for Fylde, they seem to be one of these "new money" teams that come from nowhere, burn bright and then sputter out as soon as the owner realises they are wasting both their life and their money (see - Rushden & Diamonds). The club are located in what appears to be a populationally-challenged black hole of nothingness (see - Rushden & Diamonds, again). On paper, it would seem the last place in England you'd decide to create a football club. (See - Ru- you get the point?) If nothing else, they are well placed geographically for a post match evening in Blackpool assuming this such a thing still appeals to anyone anymore?
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