Covid’s effect on Non-League Football With every industry in the country being affected football was no different, with teams at the very bottom in non-divisions being affected the worst as I found out first hand after speaking with a player and club representative from Northern Premier League – West side Ramsbottom United. Whilst teams at the very top of the pyramid were still seeing television payments coming in to their club and their competitions continuing as normal, there was little for them to be concerned about from a financial perspective. Indeed, they were assured they would still be receiving payments at the end of the season. This gave the clubs some sort of security and allowed them to start putting things in place for the next season as they knew they would still have at least a set amount coming in at the end of the year. The EFL also shared some of this security with their season still being allowed to continue. Although the EFL rely on gate receipts much
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Quick fire MK Dons bury Rochdale in 8 Minutes
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MK Dons score three goals in eight second half minutes; turning up the heat on Dale boss Brian Barry-Murphy with their 4-1 win away at the Crown Oil Arena. The loss for Dale was their 3rd consecutive defeat and it is now 12 games at their home ground where they have failed to register a win. Russell Martin's men were fast from the start and put themselves in front after just 5 minutes with an excellent strike from Matt O'Riley, who curled one in from around 20 yards out beating Bazunu in his bottom right corner. After the goal Rochdale began to get more of a foot hold in the game, with a few good counter attacks on the Dons keeper, Andrew Fisher. Dale had a strong appeal for a penalty turned down by Carl Boyeson despite having looked to be brought down inside the area, but the Referee decided to give a foul against Humphreys for diving. Dale continued to fight their way back into it and they levelled in the 39th minute. Rathbone applied pressure high in the Dons half, winning