Gornal - Promotion denied

Won't be allowed up if they win the MFA - presumably they'd go into the NPL Div 1 South alongside Halesowen if they did come up.

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Not sure the bit that says "This year we have been given 12 months to get the ground in order but there is no such rule if you go up again" is correct. The problem as I see it is that they haven't yet got the grading for the MFA (hopefully for their sake they're working on that so they don't get demoted in the summer!), so they can't apply for the League above.

If you think about it, without that rule it would theoretically be possible for any side to go all the way up to the Premier League if they got promoted every season on the basis that they'd have until the following spring each time to get the appropraite grading!

Looks like they're trying to content themselves with a trip to Wembley in the Vase in that case.

I see they won well yesterday with Marvin Nisbett getting one of the goals, but they face quite a challenge in the next round - a trip to Bodmin Town who are running away with the South West Peninsular League (1 defeat in 21).

Massive congratulations to Gornal who got through to the quarter-finals of the Vase today with a 1-0 win at Bodmin. Great result for the Black Country. Hope the go on and win it, although any side that has made it this far will be a strong challenge for them in the next round.

Spennymoor away - possibly the toughest draw they could have got.

Double page photo-spread on Gornal's Vase match against Wisbech in this month's "When Saturday Comes".

Worth picking up and flicking through... erm, I mean buying of course... in your local WH Smiths