Here's the latest about what's going on around us in the world of football:

Macclesfield failed in a last ditch bid to persuade the EFL not to relegate them to the National League.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53792727 

A very good piece on Alun Armstrong with"shockingly-bleached blond hair" in his Newcastle days by Mark Carruthers in the Shields Gazette

https://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/nostalgia/alun-armstrong-opens-his-newcastle-united-regret-ridiculous-middlesbrough-move-and-european-nights-ipswich-town-2943373

The League website has a review of how the season in the North unfolded

https://www.thenationalleague.org.uk/vanarama-national-league-north-season-review-63086

Here are the draws for the early rounds of the FA Cup, Trophy, Vase and Youth Cup

https://www.thenonleaguefootballpaper.com/latest-news/31375/revealed-fa-cup-fa-trophy-and-fa-vase-draws-made-for-2020-21-season/

And Steps 3 and below have been given guidance about playing in front of crowds. 

http://www.northernfootballleague.org/news/fa-publishes-updated-spectator-guidance/

The new Bury club feel that they've been penalised under the new spectator legislation:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53852482