A quick mention for the pride of North Shropshire, Market Drayton FC of the Northern Premier League where their January sale means admission to the game against Newcastle Town on Monday evening is priced at just £5 for adults, £3 concessions and £1 for U16's.
When The Shrew Is Away is a great twitter site for finding a game to go to at all levels within the Shropshire area.
Northern Counties East League (NCEL) action this coming Saturday sees Silsden AFC host Goole AFC and admission to The Office Interiors Stadium is on a 'pay what you want basis'.
Goole offered a similar scheme over the festive period and, in line with very healthy crowds throughout the non-league game, were rewarded with a record league attendance of 478.
The excellent site Outside The 92 has a full report on that game which can be viewed here, while the official NCEL website is a great source of fixture information amongst lots of other things.
It was good to see so many people out and about at matches on Sunday and Monday with many non-league clubs reporting record crowds, helped by the postponement of so many games in the Premier League and EFL.
I'll keep updating on twitter over the next few days and wish a happy new year to everyone.
Merry Christmas to everyone who reads the blog or follows on twitter after another rollercoaster year for football clubs up and down the country.
From matches played behind closed doors, to no games at all, to the slow return to normality and back, potentially it seems, to more uncertainty in the weeks ahead.
That will clearly be the case in Wales, where strict new restrictions come into force on Boxing Day while clubs lower down the Scottish pyramid may benefit from the limits that have been imposed on those higher up.
In England, in the absence of information to the contrary, plans are being put in place for fixtures over the festive season and two clubs close to me here in Sheffield are good examples of how football and the local community can be linked.
Stocksbridge Park Steels host Sheffield FC on the 27th and are also collecting for local Food Banks while Dronfield Town are throwing open the doors of the H E Barnes Stadium the following day for the visit of Parkgate.
There are also a number of clubs offering reduced price admission to those supporters of EFL clubs left without a game on Boxing Day due to Covid issues or because their team are away, both in the case of Tavistock AFC where Exeter City and Plymouth Argyle season ticket holders can pay just a fiver on Boxing Day.
Before Christmas, or even longer perhaps given talk of 'curcuit-breakers' and the like.
There's still quite a few matches scheduled for this week which I will try and publicise on twitter.
Redditch United and Stourport Swifts meet in a Worcestershire Senior Cup quarter-final on Thursday evening and the two clubs have agreed free admission to the tie.
