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Torquay United, after having 11 points deducted through going into
administration and playing an ineligible player, could yet join them with
Taunton Town and another big gun, Eastbourne Borough, also in the mix.
In the Northern Premier League, Radcliffe rallied to the Premier division title
under co-bosses Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley with Warrington
Rylands battling for second with Macclesfield.
Leek Town won NPL West after a sterling season, while the East and
Midlands division are still up for grabs – the latter thanks to a six-point
deduction handed to then leaders Harborough Town for fielding an
ineligible player.
Spalding United lead the way there with north-east rivals Stockton Town
and Hebburn Town battling it out in the East.
The Southern League Premier Central title went to Needham Market, under
Kevin Horlock, in the season where Nuneaton Borough perished, while
Chesham United were convincing winners of Premier South.
Both Step 4 divisions will go to the wire with Biggleswade Town holding pole
position over Bedford Town, Ware, Waltham Abbey and AFC Dunstable in
Division One Central honours and Wimborne Town and Frome Town neck-
and-neck in Premier South. What a game that is this afternoon at the New
Cuthbury!
Hornchurch were thumping winners of Isthmian League Premier division
with Chatham Town impressive runners-up, but former big guns
Kingstonian and Concord Rangers dropped out.
Chertsey Town clinched the South Central title but the other two are set for
a showdown with Lowestoft Town going head-to-head with Bowers & Pitsea
and Felixstowe & Walton United for the North title and Kent rivals Ramsgate
and Cray Valley PM locking horns in a thrilling South East finale.
And talking of county rivalries, Romford and Great Wakering Rovers will be
the pride of Essex when they lock horns in the Isuzu FA Vase final on May
11.

With the play-offs filtering all the way down to Step 6 this season, there’s
still so much football to be played, so if you’re invested in the action as
much as we are, then you’ll pick up your Non-League Paper tomorrow.

Let the games begin.

By Jon Couch