The Ultimate English Pyramid Game

                 Our Home Ground, Glen Road, Morley The Yorkshire Amateur Premier Division is Level 12 on the English pyramid. There are 13 teams, of which the top two win promotion to Level 11, named the Yorkshire Amateur Supreme Division (cue Diana Ross jokes). The bottom two sides are relegated to Level 13 which is the Yorkshire Amateur League Championship. List of Teams in the Yorkshire Amateur Premier Division 2022/23 and their locations. Beeston Juniors (Beeston, Leeds) Collegians (Linley, Huddersfield) Ealandians (Elland) Gildersome Spurs Old Boys (Gildersome, Leeds) Golcar United Reserves (Huddersfield) Greetland (near Halifax) Leeds City Reserves (Adel, Leeds) Lepton Highlanders (Lepton, Huddersfield) Nostell Miners Welfare Reserves (Nostell nr Wakefield) Route One Reserves (Keighley) Shire Academics (Headingley, Leeds) Woodkirk Valley (Tingley, Leeds) So here goes nothing then.... My first game in the  is away to the Collegians...

  Disclaimer:  This is a purely ficticious story based around a game of Football Manager 2023 and is not about the real Morley Town FC. This story is not based on real events, just my own imagination through a laptop screen. Enjoy!  It was mid-August and Glen Road was bathed in a golden evening sunlight. As I left the ground for the day I decided to take a walk up to Topcliffe Farm on the public footpath which leads up from the side of a nearby road. The view at the top of the hill where Topcliffe Farm sits is amazing. You get a true perspective of the geography of the area. Morley is famously built on seven hills and from this birds eye view perspective you can see the whole town laid out in front of you below. On the Morley skyline you can see the clock tower of the Town Hall and to the right of it the tower of the now derelict St Mary's in the Wood church. There were also some old mill chimneys which could still be seen, long since disused. Until 1974 Morley was a sepe...

        Disclaimer: This is a purely ficticious story based around a game of Football Manager 2023 and is not about the real Morley Town FC. This story is not based on real events, just my own imagination through a laptop screen. Enjoy!  Morley, West Yorkshire July 2022   “Oh yea! Oh yea! Oh yea!” shouted the town crier, ringing his bell loudly as he stood outside Morley Town Hall, the ornate late Victorian structure which dominates this West Yorkshire town. As ever on these occasions the man in the red robes had drawn a crowd, who had briefly halted their daily business in Queens Street to come and see what the fuss was about. This included pensioners who loved this kind of thing, to curious children and a small group of teenagers hanging out in Windsor Court, the adjacent shopping precinct, who were taking the mickey a little and giggling as the crier carried out his duties. “Oh yea! Oh Yea! Morley Town football club have appointed Jonathan Rudd as t...

     Amongst the rolling green hills of Merrie Olde England, in a forgotten corner of an old industrial town or city, from the mass expanses of Hackney Marshes, to the village playing fields the national sport that was invented on these shores 150 years ago is still played purely for love of the game. There is no money, there are no Bentleys, no Gucci kit bags, no fame or glory, but just pure passion for football. This is the grassroots, the backbone of English football, in all weathers come rain or shine, hail, sleet, snow or fog, the muck and nettles, the freezing cold changing rooms, the muddy goalmouths, the roast dinner and pints in the pub afterwards, the one man and his dog... Welcome to England! This is the Ultimate English Pyramid Game!!! Read Part 2 Here!