54 years, 48 leagues, 2,000 grounds - the ultimate football odyssey

Sport Insight54 years, 48 leagues, 2,000 grounds - the ultimate football odysseyPublished3 minutes agoCommentsImage source, BBC SportByDaniel AustinBBC Sport senior journalistStanding pitchside at a muddy Lancastrian playing field is a football fan excitedly applying the finishing touches to an enormous, time-worn scrapbook.The notes he is making mark the culmination of a five-decade-long odyssey.When a 17-year-old Tony Incenzo visited the last of the 92 grounds in the Football League in 1981, he became the youngest person to complete a sporting pilgrimage that hardcore fans across the country can take a lifetime to accomplish.But rather than stopping there and choosing just to follow his beloved Queens Park Rangers, Tony set himself a new goal - to visit every single ground in the English non-league system, spanning hundreds upon hundreds of clubs in every corner of the country.And when Fulwood Amateurs kicked off at home against Thornton Cleveleys in the North West Counties First Division North on Easter Monday, 54 years after his first non-league match, Tony's epic quest was complete.Stamps and signatures from every home club Tony has visited line the pages of his precious scrapbook, a behemoth record of the ultimate football groundhopping adventure.Fulwood's entry now sits on its own fresh page, his teenage dream finally realised."It's just overwhelming emotion", Tony says, following a guard of honour given to him by both sets of players."To finally do it, on a glorious sunny day, with a lovely green pitch, is a great relief."To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedMedia caption, Tony Incenzo tells BBC Sport he felt "overwhelming emotion" after fulfilling his dreamThe non-league system comprises steps five to 10 of English football and all leagues bar the top division - the National League - are regional.The system has undergone multiple revamps since Tony began his...