The FA announced details today of the reorganisation of non-League football steps 4 to 6 for next season.
Older fans might be interested to see the name of South Liverpool who have been promoted to North West Counties Division 1 North.
South Liverpool ! We signed Eric Shreeve from them. Peter Eales was one of their players too. I remember going there in the NPL on a bitterly cold winter day. It was the only match still on within 30 miles or so. They'd had braziers on the pitch to stop it freezing and the surface was rutted and bumpy. Any grass had long since gone. The match finished 0-0 and was truly dreadful. Big crowd in though, so the effort to get the game on was worth it for the club.
The land where Holly Park stood is now part of Liverpool South Parkway railway station.
They play in Aigburth now, closer to the city centre, as well as in a nicer area than Holly Park.
They had a year of only playing youth football and then merged with Cheshire Lines but are back in the non-League pyramid after 30 years in the Liverpool County Combination and West Cheshire League.
I remember going to the new (?) club a few years ago and they listed in the programme the players who had played most games for the club and Peter Eales was included as well as Albie Nieman who played a couple of games for us.
They were the first club John King managed, and I think he may have brought Gary Anderson with him from there.
Gary Anderson made his Alty debut during the 1981/82 season and then went on to record 15 league appearances for us during the 1982/83 campaign (I seem to recall that he was sent off during our 2-1 FA Cup First Round victory over Rochdale in November 1982).
He started the 1983/84 season at South Liverpool under the management team of John King & George Rooney, who eventually succeeded Tony Sanders at Moss Lane in January 1984. The 1984/85 season saw the return of Anderson for the second of his three spells with the Robins.
Here's a photograph of the South Liverpool team at the start of the 1983/84 season (note the presence of Lawrence Iro and Kevan Hawkins, too):
South Liverpool FC
Back Row (l - r) John King (manager), Lawrence Iro, Steve Cole, Ian Gibson, Kevin O'Brien, Danny Atwere, Phil McFerran, Barry Williams, George Rooney (asst manager)
Front Row (l-r) Gary Anderson, Kevin Hawkins, John McInnes, Keith Featherstone, Russ Hooton, Tony Scott.