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The record remains for another year as no team promoted from Non-League has been relegated from the Football League in the next season, since automatic promotions began at the start of the 1986-87 campaign now at 59 clubs

There’s a lot of noise about “support your local” and people taking shots at anyone who follows a big club, but let’s be honest, it’s a strange hill to die on. Grown men berating others over a decision they made as a child. Really? Kids don’t sit there analysing geography, club history, or drawing a radius around their hometown to decide who they are allowed to support. They don’t care where a club is on the map or whether it is considered local. They just fall in love with what they see. The truth is, most people did not even choose their team in any meaningful way. They were influenced by family, by mates, by a player they liked, or by what was on TV at the time. That is how it works. Acting like football allegiance is some kind of moral decision, rather than something shaped in childhood, is just daft. Support who you support. No one needs a lecture about it years later. And if you are that bothered about who someone else supports, you have probably missed the whole point of football in the first place.

Not everyone grows up with the privilege of being taken to football matches with their Dad

Dyer was lucky to grow up somewhere with a top flight, moderately successful team though. Where I live the local team have floated between League One and even went down to the National League, so whilst we do support them and go to games it's not uncommon for people to also have Top Flight team they support

It’s just silly that really, isn’t it?

So England won’t call up Mason Greenwood who’s producing outrageous numbers more than all their forwards except Harry Kane? 🤔