While we have been enjoying England’s passage to the semi-finals, Scotland’s first World cup appearance for some years it is the coming new season that excites me more. Today is one of those landmark days, like the winter solstice which heralds longer daylight hours and a creep into spring. It is the publication of most of the remaining Non League fixtures. We have had the Premier League, EFL and National League fixtures in orchestrated reveals but today it is the turn of the grass roots. True the preliminary rounds of the FA cup, Trophy and Vase have already crept out but todays are the ones that mark the start of my new season now being able to plan new adventures to new teams and destinations. Why we have to wait so long, giving the smaller teams a shorter time to prepare than the bigger clubs with more resources, I do not know, in todays AI world the excuse that this is delayed because of ground sharing has to be worked out is baffling. Any way we are here and a season unfolds.
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