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21. Adventures Across The Pennines

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  Sounds more like a school mission statement than a county... The big kick off has finally arrived and it's fair to say I'm excited. Gone are those short easy little trips down the motorw....   Hang on! Were in West Yorkshire.. there's no short, easy trips anywhere without congestion, roadworks, temporary traffic lights or a tailback on the M62, M1, M621, M1/A1 Link Road or if in Bradford the M606.. . as well as those stupid drivers that think the A6110 ring road is bloody Silverstone! Anyway I digress... In the amateur leagues, places like Huddersfied and Keighley were the furthest we ever travelled to and were relatively short compared to the massive trip we were about to undergo to Barrow in Furness in Cumbria to take on Holker Old Boys in our first game of the season in the North West Counties Division One North.  During pre-season we managed to raise enough cash to buy a team coach as it would be too much to expect players who are earning barely enough for a tank of p
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20.Welcome T'North West Counties League Division 1 North

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    Welcome To The North West Counties League Division One North So let me clear something up. Although Morley are in Yorkshire, the English pyramid system has thrown us slightly west to go up through  the North West Counties Leagues in Lancashire/Cumbria, as opposed to The North East Counties League where many of the non-league Yorkshire teams play. I am slightly disappointed that I will not be taking on the likes of Harrogate Railway, Frickley, Selby Town, Hall Road Rangers and other Yorkshire non-league teams, because in the interests of this story, my knowledge of Yorkshire football teams and the  places they represent are far greater than the Lancashire ones. However thinking about it makes some kind of sense. Morley is nearer the Lancashire border than it is to York or the East Coast, so geographically it is fairly accurate. There are also a handful of other West Yorkshire teams there as well, such as Albion Sports (based in Farsley) and Bradford based, Campion, which will prov
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19. End of Season 2

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Time to round up the formalities in what has been a successful season for Morley Town FC.  Youth Intake Day! To add to the happy mood in the camp we welcome more young recruits to the club. Marley Haylock (DL/DMLC) Oscar Caffrey (AMR/ST) Callum Haggett (AMRC) Cain Worsnop (DR/MRL/ST) Karlos Bett-Wildsmith (MRLC) Marlon Gutzmore (AMRL) Danny Benza (AMLC) Michael Francis (DR) I am particularly interested in this guy who has good stats for this level at the tender age of 15. Players Released From The Club I’m keen to keep a clean and tidy squad, which consists of first team players and some good youth prospects which have a chance of making it to the first team in the future. Some get stuck in that mid-zone of going nowhere and unfortunately have had to be released. Sam Kittrick (ST) Pekka Ikonen (MR) Flynn Sheppard (DC) Owen Jones (AMC) Jonny Jones (DR) – Free transfer to Bedlington Michael Fox (ML) – Free transfer to Carnforth Rangers Matt Dempsey leaves Morley Town
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