In final of FA vase 22nd May - at least one Newport team at Wembley this season! Lets hope its a Newport win and Wrexham loss on 'non league finals day' - which is a good initiative as it packs out Wembley and makes more sense to do a 2 for 1 (imagine if Wrexham win the national league and the FA trophy think I'll be sick - the offices of BBC Wales will be covered in a sticky and unmentionable liquid produced by over excited [male] sports journalists eurgh!)

[edit] having taken a quick look at their website - Newport Pagnell seems like a proper community club - the United Counties league has a lot of these solid community clubs in areas of fairly big population with a lot of market towns and suburbs of bigger towns/cities represented - a solid league

Yes good luck the Port !

Good Afternoon

Newport Pagnell indeed! Well for a short while, when I was 11, I wasn’t sure if they were “my” team. Newport County had just won the FA cup ( Subbuteo) and I had no idea it was a team in Wales, but I did know of Newport Pagnell just down the road!

Phil in Northampton

I've got my ticket for the game. Not stopping for the rectum game though.

Only just realised Newport Pagnell's manager is called Gary Flinn. Of course he is.

Port one up!

3-0, running away with it!

One of their players is called Ben Shepherd. Yes, really. And they're called the Swans...

Can't believe how small their keeper is

Went to the game today. Thoroughly enjoyed the game as a biased neutral.
Considering they were both step 9 teams thought both teams did non-league football proud.

Madhatter wrote: May 22nd, 2022, 9:48 pm Went to the game today. Thoroughly enjoyed the game as a biased neutral.
Considering they were both step 9 teams thought both teams did non-league football proud.

And means a lot more to teams at that level - without patronising or resorting to clichés fair to say players at that level are vanishingly unlikely to play at Wembley before or after their appearance yesterday (whereas national league players in the Trophy likely would move around enough to somehow end up at Wembley at some point again) - I hope all involved of both teams thoroughly wrung everything out of their day - reminds me a little of our first trip to Wembley for the FA trophy final sitting next to my dad - like a dream and never would have expected either the number of subsequent trips nor even being in the football league proper...certainly for a first time trip as a fan of a smaller/unglamorous club there is something magical about Wembley (thereafter it gets a little boring!)