How to make everyone happy....

 Let's face it - National League North and South divisions are in uproar.  They narrowly voted to scrub this season and try again next year.  You'd have thought that would have been the end of the matter.  And it would have been were it not for a handful of clubs who are happy to get themselves and others in hock over the outside chance of squeezing themselves up into the top division.  F*ck everyone else.  F*ck Covid.  F*ck potential crippling debt.

It has all got a bit heated on social media as everyone has had their say.  Curiously the vast majority of supporters follow the lead of their clubs.  For example you don't find many Kettering fans happy about the club risking going bust just so Boston can try to get themselves back to the top table after decades away.  Equally you don't get many York City fans seeing the big picture of clubs going bust and millions dying during a pandemic.  Not when their club has an outside sniff of promotion.

Anyway, in the pursuance of a fair and even handed approach to making everyone happy, we've come up with the perfect answer.  The 2021-22 season simply has to commence thus: -

The National League 2021-22

Aldershot

Altrincham

Barnet

Borehamwood

Bromley

Chesterfield

Dagenham

Dover

Eastleigh

Halifax

Hartlepool

Kings Lynn

Maidenhead

Notts County

Solihull Moors

Stockport

Torquay

Wealdstone

Weymouth

Woking

Wrexham

Yeovil

AFC Fylde

Brackley 

Boston

Chorley

Gloucester City

Kidderminster

York

Chelmsford

Concord 

Dartford

Dorking

Eastbourne

Ebbsfleet

Havant

Hemel Hempstead 

Hungerford

Oxford City

St Albans

Welling

OK, with 42 teams in it, it does make the National League's top division larger than most.  But, at least, it will give the sulky bastards who are utterly desperate to risk life, limb and financial survival the only thing that matters.  Promotion.

If the League Board believe 42 teams is too unwieldy and that, at 11 months, the season might take a bit longer to complete than normal I'm sure Boston or York wouldn't mind being promoted further, leap-frogging back into the Football League itself.

After all, at the end of the day this is what all the #letusplay nonsense is all about.  Boston want to get back into the Football League they were ejected from because of that pesky, entirely proven fraud.  York, for their part still can't quite get their heads around the fact they have been so unremittingly rubbish over the past half dozen years and genuinely believe they are still in League Two anyway.

Happier more fraudulent days, eh, Boston....?