James Richards – Editor D3D4Football.com, Host of the D3D4 Football Podcast

Oxford United fan since 1993 and had to endure watching their slow painful demise into non-league football.  Then had the pleasure of watching them recover and get back into the third tier. Started D3D4Football through an unyielding frustration at the lack of decent coverage and discussion of and about League One & Two.

1.Team Supported: Oxford United

2.First Match Attended & the Year: Portsmouth v Oxford, Fratton Park, 1993

3.Most Memorable Match: Oxford United 3-1 York City, Wembley, 2010 Conference National Play-off final

4.Your favourite player of all time: Nigel Jemson, arrogant, lazy but at times brilliant

5.Things you like least about modern football: Goal music, as if you need reminding to be happy, ridiculous! Oh, and thank God we don’t have VAR in the lower leagues.

6.Favourite flavour crisps: Ready salted

Darren Young, D3D4 Walsall Correspondent & Columnist

Darren is an author and consultant; working within sport to help organisations and individual clubs to improve their fans’ experience. His first novel, Child Taken, was published by Red Door in May 2017.

1.Team Supported: Walsall

2.First Match Attended & the Year: Walsall 2-0 Port Vale, Fellows Park, 1983

3.Most Memorable Match: Liverpool 2-2 Walsall, 1984 Milk Cup Semi-Final

4.Your favourite player of all time: David Kelly (Walsall) & Bryan Robson (non-Walsall)

5.Things you like least about modern football: Agents influence

6.Favourite flavour crisps: Smokey bacon

Nathan Ridley, D3D4 Carlisle United Correspondent

I’ve supported Carlisle United for as long as I can remember and the club is absolutely in my blood. Travelling (mostly down) the country often to support the team or heading (up) to Brunton Park has always served up some unbelievable memories. Albeit a heavy mix of good times & bad times, but I wouldn’t change any of it. I’m currently in my 3rd season as a season ticket holder.

1.Team Supported: Carlisle United

2.First Match Attended & the Year: Stevenage 0-1 Carlisle United, Britannia Stadium, Conference Play-Off Final, 14/05/2005

3.Most Memorable Match: Hartlepool 2-3 Carlisle United 29/08/15. I don’t think you could wish for a better derby match. It had almost everything. It felt like it lasted hours. What a day!

4.Your favourite player of all time: Antony Sweeney. Not blessed with anything special other than desire and a hard-working attitude. Perfect for a fan to get behind from the terraces when the team aren’t performing well, we certainly weren’t most of his time.

5.Things you like least about modern football: The short-term ideology of most involved in the game. No one gives managers, players, systems (the list goes on), time to fully thrive.

6.Favourite flavour crisps: McCoy’s – Flame Grilled Steak

Chris Stringer, D3D4 Podcast co-host & Oldham Athletic Correspondent

I’m Oldham born and bred and have been an avid supporter of The Latics for around 15 years. I’m a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds where I look at changes in Antarctica…it’s not nearly as cold as Boundary Park, though! That’s the glove of Connor Ripley in my picture – who holds the record for the most clean sheets in a season at Oldham!

You can follow me on Twitter @stringer_oafc

1.Team Supported: Oldham Athletic

2.First Match Attended & the Year: Tranmere Rovers 1-2 Oldham Athletic, Prenton Park, 2003 – I was 5, Oldham scored a penalty and apparently I fell asleep…..it’s easy to do watching Oldham

3.Most Memorable Match: Oldham 3-2 Liverpool – FA Cup 27th January 2013 – Matt Smith scored 2 – we went onto draw 2-2 with Everton in the next round which is a close second!

4.Your favourite player of all time: I’m going to stick my neck out and say Sean Gregan – no-nonsense centre half.

5.Things you like least about modern football: The amount of arguing with the referee from players

6.Favourite flavour crisps: Smokey bacon

Ian Bradley, D3D4 Rotherham United Correspondent & Roving Reporter

Millers fan & avid groundhopper (71/92). Millers fan for 46 years with all the infrequent ups & frequent downs that go with it.

1.Team Supported: Rotherham United

2.First Match Attended & the Year: Rotherham v Wrexham 1971/72 season

3.Most Memorable Match: Rotherham United 2-1 Shrewsbury Town, Old Wembley, Autowindscreens shield final April 14th 1996  , might not sound much but I witnessed MY team win at Wembley…totally mindblowing!!

4.Your favourite player of all time: Gerry Forrest, right back but class, a Rolls Royce of a footballer

5.Things you like least about modern football: The fact that Sky TV run English football & the popular media’s perception that Football beyond the EPL (GREED LEAGUE) doesn’t exist

6.Favourite flavour crisps: Cheese & Onion

Roger Fitton, D3D4 Morecambe FC Correspondent

Roger Fitton was born in Morecambe in 1954. He has lived and worked in London and back home in jobs as various as NHS bureaucrat; AA Recovery Truck driver and freelance writer, of which his most famous offerings were the scripts in verse for the comic character Watford Gapp; King of the Rap created and drawn by Tom Paterson for Fleetway Comics. He is a graduate of Lancaster University and has a PhD in Politics, awarded by Leeds University in 1988. He currently makes leaded lights (what most people call stained glass windows) as the Working Glass Hero and has been the long-term Morecambe correspondent for Vital football. He has had articles about the lost Breweries of North West England published by the Brewery History Society and is currently working on a study of the State Management Scheme in Carlisle (where the government nationalised all the pubs and breweries for a period of over half a century until 1973) which he expects to be published during the next few months.

1.Team Supported: Morecambe.

2.First Match Attended & the Year: About 1965 at Christie Park: I remember World Cup Willie (The England mascot for the forthcoming World Cup) nougat being for sale in the tea hut on the cinder bank which eventually became the Umbro I remember the nougat but I don’t remember who the Shrimps were playing but it was almost certainly in the Lancashire Combination.

3.Most Memorable Match: Morecambe 4 : 3 Crewe Alexandra. Coca Cola League Two. (Good) Friday 2nd April 2010. The Shrimps were facing a penalty and already three-one down and had just had a player sent off. Barry Roche saved Clayton Donaldson’s pen and the Shrimps won, ironically with Dave Artell (current Crewe Manager) scoring the winning goal. Most memorable games: Morecambe beating Dartford in the FA Trophy Final at the old Wembley in 1973 and their victory against Exeter City in the Conference Play-Off Final in 2007 at the new one: the only times I have ever been to either stadia.

4.Your favourite player of all time: Favourite Morecambe  player of all time: the late, great Charlie Lea. He should have been playing at a much higher level; he was phenomenally skilful and despite the unwelcome attention he received from a succession of agricultural non-League fullbacks, he never retaliated. As a black man playing in monotone football back in the 1960 and 70s, he was a role model for anybody both off and on the field. R.I.P. Charlie.

5.Things you like least about modern football: Too much money at the highest level. The wages Premiership footballers are paid is frankly obscene. Many of the antics of these overpaid, often wholly one-dimensional prima donnas both on and off the field make you glad to still be in touch with the roots of the beautiful game.

6.Favourite flavour crisps: Worcester Sauce