Non-League Football Day takes place in the UK on September 4th. The event is a brilliant initiative thought up by James Doe - a lifelong football fan and supporter of Harrow Borough FC - to encourage fans to go and support their local non-league club and get the gate numbers up. Sadly, I cannot be there to participate but I am hoping this article can bring you a personal insight into my passion for the semi-professional game and convince you to get behind your nearest non-league team this weekend.

Call me a romantic, but there is something about the non-league game that makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. I was introduced to lower league football by a former boyfriend early last decade and although it's a world away from where I watch my football these days, I am an advocate of the non-league game having spent seven years following it.

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"I'm proud to be a juventino, to be a bandiera, like you define me to be often, in reality I'm just a small part of a big black & white bandiera (flag) that grows with the years and if you look closely your name is part of it... To continue making this bandiera grow we need everybody: let's stay united." - Alessandro Del Piero

So, here it is, Opening Day. There really is nothing like it, no matter what your sport, nor your team.

Everyone starts level on points, everyone's thoughts are of what the season ahead will bring, nobody thinks of losing, relegation or disaster. Here is your last chance to dream, your last day in denial, the last hiding place.

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With Raúl's departure from Real Madrid this summer, the famous number seven shirt was available for the first time in a long time and there was only one man who was going to take it.

As Cristiano Ronaldo waves goodbye to his temporary stint as "CR9" and is reunited with his favoured figure, it raises the age old question: 'What's in a number?'

Well, when it comes to football; history, responsibility and superstition are usually the three main factors, particularly in Ronaldo's case.

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