We continue our look at every attendance of this week. These are the attendances from Levels 7 and 8 of English football…
Now it’s time to check out all those in Level 7…
Northern Premier League – Premier Division
Bamber Bridge (1) 2-3 (2) Lancaster City – 670
Blyth Spartans (0) 3-4 (3) Whitby Town – 626
FC United of Manchester (1) 4-0 (0) Prescot Cables – 1,879
Gainsborough Trinity (0) 0-2 (1) Guiseley – 811
Macclesfield (1) 1-2 (1) Leek Town – 4,181
Matlock Town (2) 4-0 (0) Ilkeston Town – 1,323
Mickleover A-A Ashton United
Stockton Town (1) 1-1 (0) Hebburn Town – 976
Warrington Rylands (2) 2-0 (0) Hyde United – 639
Workington AFC (0) 2-2 (1) Morpeth Town – 918
Isthmian League – Premier Division
Billericay Town (2) 3-0 (0) Canvey Island – 1,295
Bowers & Pitsea (0) 2-2 (1) Hashtag United – 333
Cray Valley PM (2) 3-3 (1) Chatham Town – 308
Dartford (2) 2-1 (1) Cray Wanderers – 1,303
Dulwich Hamlet (1) 1-0 (0) Carshalton Athletic – 2,883
Hastings United (0) 0-2 (2) Dover Athletic – 1,239
Hendon (0) 0-4 (0) Potters Bar Town – 238
Horsham (1) 2-1 (0) Bognor Regis Town – 1,497
Lewes (0) 0-0 (0) Folkestone Invicta – 1,450
Wingate & Finchley (0) 0-1 (0) Cheshunt – 316
Southern League – Premier Central
AFC Sudbury 1-2 Bishop’s Stortford – 508
AFC Telford United 2-0 Halesowen Town – 2,047
Alvechurch 1-2 Stratford Town – 480
Barwell (2) 2-2 (0) Harborough Town
Bedford Town (0) 2-1 (1) Hitchin Town – 952
Bromsgrove Sporting 2-0 Stourbridge – 1,307
Kettering Town 3-1 Biggleswade Town – 1,274
Leiston 7-2 Lowestoft Town – 434
Redditch United 0-0 Banbury United – 700
St Ives Town 0-1 Royston Town – 471
Stamford (1) 1-1 (0) Spalding United – 685
Southern League – Premier South
Basingstoke Town 2-2 Marlow – 521
Frome Town 5-0 Plymouth Parkway – 714
Gloucester City 3-1 Swindon Supermarine – 1,467
Hanwell Town (1) 1-2 (0) Chertsey Town – 365
Havant & Waterlooville 3-1 Gosport Borough – 1,406
Hungerford Town 1-3 Merthyr Town – 489
Poole Town (0) 1-1 (1) Dorchester Town – 1,357
Sholing 0-1 Wimborne Town – 435
Tiverton Town 0-3 Taunton Town – 930
Walton & Hersham 2-0 Bracknell Town – 748
Winchester City 1-4 AFC Totton – 568
NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE – EAST DIVISION
Bishop Auckland (1) 3-1 (0) Consett AFC – 401
Bradford (Park Avenue) A-A Pontefract Collieries
Cleethorpes Town (1) 2-1 (0) North Ferriby – 583
Dunston (2) 2-1 (0) Newton Aycliffe – 267
Emley AFC A-A Stocksbridge Park Steels
Garforth Town (3) 3-0 (0) Brighouse Town – 406
Heaton Stannington (1) 1-3 (1) Ashington AFC – 497
Ossett United (0) 0-0 (0) Liversedge – 505
Sheffield (0) 1-4 (1) Belper Town – 630
Sherwood Colliery (1) 1-0 (0) Carlton Town – 183
NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE – MIDLANDS DIVISION
AFC Rushden & Diamonds (0) 0-2 (1) Corby Town – 619
Boldmere St Michaels (1) 14 (2) Sutton Coldfield Town – 267
Coleshill Town (4) 6-0 (0) Lye Town – 111
Coventry Sphinx (1) 3-1 (0) Racing Club Warwick – 174
Grantham Town (1) 1-5 (2) Long Eaton United – 331
Hinckley LRFC (0) 0-1 (0) Anstey Nomads – 175
Quorn (2) 4-1 (0) Shepshed Dynamo – 481
Rugby Town (0) 1-0 (0) Bedworth United – 355
Sporting Khalsa (1) 2-1 (0) Darlaston Town – 325
Wellingborough Town (2) 4-0 (0) Loughborough Students – 285
NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE – WEST DIVISION
Avro A-A Trafford
Bootle (0) 0-1 (1) Runcorn Linnets – 623
Clitheroe (1) 2-1 (1) Atherton Collieries – 1,024
Congleton Town (1) 5-1 (0) City of Liverpool – 881
Hanley Town (0) 0-2 (2) Chasetown – 155
Hednesford Town (1) 4-2 (1) Stafford Rangers – 2,503
Newcastle Town (2) 2-0 (0) Kidsgrove Athletic – 462
Stalybridge Celtic (0) 2-1 (0) Mossley – 2,015
Widnes (1) 1-2 (2) Vauxhall Motors – 294
Witton Albion (2) 2-0 (0) Nantwich Town – 644
Wythenshawe (0) 0-2 (1) Wythenshawe Town – 1,204
ISTHMIAN LEAGUE – NORTH DIVISION
Basildon United (0) 0-1 (0) Brentwood Town – 110
Brightlingsea Regent (1) 2-0 (0) Gorleston – 260
Concord Rangers (1) 2-3 (2) Witham Town – 195
Felixstowe & Walton United (1) 1-0 (0) Ipswich Wanderers – 558
Heybridge Swifts (0) 1-1 (0) Maldon & Tiptree – 605
Mildenhall Town (0) 0-0 (0) Bury Town – 682
Redbridge (0) 0-2 (0) Waltham Abbey – 103
Sporting Bengal United (0) 0-5 (3) Cambridge City – 85
Tilbury (2) 2-1 (0) Grays Athletic – 565
Wroxham (0) 1-1 (0) Newmarket Town – 244
ISTHMIAN LEAGUE – SOUTH CENTRAL DIVISION
Badshot Lea (0) 0-4 (2) Ascot United – 167
Hanworth Villa (0) 0-3 (1) Metropolitan Police – 177
Harrow Borough (0) 0-0 (0) Hayes & Yeading United – 279
Hartley Wintney (0) 1-3 (3) Farnham Town – 680
Moneyfields (0) 4-1 (0) Horndean – 336
South Park (Reigate) (0) 0-3 (0) Raynes Park Vale – 191
Southall (0) 0-1 (0) Uxbridge – 143
Westfield (3) 3-3 (1) Ashford Town (Middx) – 174
ISTHMIAN LEAGUE – SOUTH EAST DIVISION
AFC Croydon Athletic (3) 5-1 (0) Phoenix Sports – 171
Deal Town (1) 1-1 (1) Herne Bay – 820
Eastbourne Town (1) 1-1 (0) East Grinstead Town – 309
Hythe Town (0) 0-2 (0) Ashford United – 491
Littlehampton Town (1) 2-2 (0) Broadbridge Heath – 255
Margate (0) 2-2 (1) Ramsgate – 2,500
Sevenoaks Town (1) 2-2 (1) Merstham – 263
Sittingbourne (1) 4-0 (0) Sheppey United – 826
Steyning Town Community (2) 3-3 (1) Lancing – 270
Three Bridges (0) 1-2 (2) Burgess Hill Town – 339
SOUTHERN LEAGUE – CENTRAL DIVISION
AFC Dunstable 0-1 Real Bedford – 250
Aylesbury United 1-4 Berkhamsted – 251
Barton Rovers 3-0 Biggleswade – 215
Beaconsfield Town (0) 1-2 (1) Flackwell Heath – 394
Hertford Town 1-1 Enfield – 345
North Leigh 1-3 Kidlington – 212
Stotfold 1-0 Leverstock Green – 216
Welwyn Garden City 2-1 Hadley – 141
SOUTHERN LEAGUE – SOUTH DIVISION
Bemerton Heath Harlequins 2-1 Bashley – 209
Bideford 1-0 Willand Rovers – 333
Cribbs 1-1 Tavistock – 132
Evesham United 0-4 Bishops Cleeve – 433
Falmouth Town 2-0 Mousehole AFC – 1,110
Helston Athletic 1-2 Exmouth Town – 243
Larkhall Athletic 0-1 Shaftesbury – 263
Malvern Town 2-2 Cinderford Town – 408
Melksham Town 2-0 Westbury United – 1,019
Thatcham Town 0-0 Didcot Town – 235
Yate Town 1-1 Bristol Manor Farm – 785
Football is…
Football is a wiggle of the hips
Football is a whistle to the lips
Football is an unfollowed script
Football is
Football is kickabouts in the park
Football is floodlights in the dark
Football is fans not oligarchs
Football is
Football is the dream of finishing top
Football is the fear of facing the drop
Football is an open book not a closed shop
Football is
Football is not a share price but a shared obsession
Football is more than just keeping possession
Football is freedom of expression
Football is
Football is the real thing not a rehearsal
Football is a language that’s universal
Football is drama not a corporate commercial
Football is
Football is a door to which we are the key
Football is nothing without you and me
Football is whatever we allow it to be
Football will be…
Poem by Brian Bilston
Expressions of hope from fans
Blackburn fan Callum Dunn-Broom
“Hope. It’s hoping for a team that fights for the badge. It’s hoping for a team that makes you proud. It’s hoping for the next Adam Wharton. It’s hoping for last minute winners, celebrating with strangers and losing your glasses in the process. It’s hoping this year’s the year. The year you walk down Wembley Way with your old man for the first time. It’s the hope that kills you. But we’ll be there. Week in. Week out. Hoping.”
Cambridge fan Connor O’Reilly
“Another season brings bouts of anxiety following our teams up and down the country. From the highest of highs of last minute victories and cup shocks, to the lowest of lows with derby day defeats and awful form with no end in sight, it’s never easy being a football fan.”
Wycombe fan Jonny King
The best bit of the season is just before kick off in the opening game. The moments before the first whistle is blown and the first ball is kicked, when everyone is equal and anything is possible. Both sets of fans united by the same hope. The tantalising prospect of what if? What will happen next is anyone’s guess. So all the more reason to enjoy the blissful pre-match ignorance of whatever madness, agony, heartbreak… or glory is about the come.
Crewe fan Jonny Tomlinson
In a town that many pass, but few ever stay, the passion here shines, in a special way. The hope of the Railwaymen, our hearts filled with pride, Crewe Alexandra, we’re always at your side. When passion meets hope, a magic ignites, something truly special, under our stadium lights. Through triumphs and trials, our spirit stays true. Crewe Alexandra, this season and every season were with you.
Salford fan Andrew Gordon
We trust in the process, we hope in the dream. With past high to inspire us, and past lows to drive us. We believe that this is our years! A belief we can be champions. A belief we will go up. You can call it blind loyalty. We call it true faith.
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