shunwick
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ORIGINAL: shunwick Agreed about Torquay. And look at some of the other teams in the National League... Lincoln, Tranmere, Aldershot, Barrow, Macclesfield, Wrexham, Chester, Woking, Torquay, York, Southport ... and in the National League North we find Halifax, Stockport, and Darlington... they all have a long Football League history with Stockport County the longest, having played in the Football League for 110 years... The National League is bloody tough to get out of unless you are dropping the other way... Lincoln were so desperate to get back to the Football League they even pinched our bloody manager... oh Danny Cowley we still love you mate... Best wishes, Steve Steve & Robert, you Brits have your own lingo, can you explain to a Yank what you mean by this, "The National League is bloody tough to get out of unless you are dropping the other way", I have an idea but I don't want to guess or assume...thanks! warspite1 Mmmm big subject but essentially what we are talking about here is the football division directly below the professional leagues (currently called the National League but has had other names). In English football (also open to Welsh clubs) there are four professional divisions (92 clubs) - the Premier League (20 clubs), the Championship (24), League One (24) and League Two (24). The bottom two clubs in League 2 at the end of the season are relegated to the National League (and replaced with the winners of the National League + the team that wins the 4-team end of season play-off (contested by teams that finish 2-5 inc). The clubs shunwick has listed are some of the teams that have spent many years in the football league (although personally I wouldn't put Macclesfield (a fairly recent addition) and Woking (never been in the football league) in that list). Its sad when long-standing names fall out. Some have come back - e.g. Bristol Rovers, Grimsby Town and Luton - but as per the list, others have not managed to do so and in some cases have fallen on hard times and gone out of business - or simply 'dropped the other way' i.e. been relegated to an even lower tier of the English football structure. You have a good point about Macclesfiel and it was Workington I was thinking about when I listed Woking... I am old and crotchity... Best wishes, Steve
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