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Meat & Greet

16 Thursday Aug 2012

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Brooklands, Chelsea, Cobham, Conner McLaren, Dale Burgess, Extra Preliminary Round, FA Cup, Leg O Mutton, Mole Valley, Reigate, South Park

Sunday 12th August 2012 ko 3.00pm

FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round

COBHAM 1 (McLaren 28)

SOUTH PARK 1 (Burgess 12)

Att 133 (h/c)

Entry £5

Programme £1

This one was a complete bonus, although I’d have taken some convincing when becalmed on the M25. I never did find out how the “Leg O’ Mutton” field got its name, but its been on my to-do list for years. Why so long? Probably that doing it was too straightforward! I remember seeing them as the visitors at AFC Wallingford in 2003, they lost 5-1 but I did find out their most famous player was cricketer Bob Willis!

I reached the ground after a trip through millionaire’s row, realising why Chelsea FC have their training ground around here. Apart from the affluent, the area is the home to the site of the Brooklands motor racing circuit, and more locally the Cobham Mill, which dates from 1822, but is the site of milling from medieval times.

A warning for those visiting Cobham Continue reading →

The Death of Reality

16 Thursday Aug 2012

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Arundel, Combined Counties, David Walker, Epsom and Ewell, Extra Preliminary Round, FA Cup, Mill Road, Nathan Ayling, Sussex County League

Saturday 11th August 2012 ko 3.00pm

FA Cup Extra-Preliminary Round

ARUNDEL 1 (Walker 36)

EPSOM & EWELL 2 (Ayling 30 75)

Att c100

Entry £5

Programme 50p

I’m writing about this one 5 days after the event which isn’t necessarily a bad thing  as I can try to place my trip to Mill Road in some sort of context. I’d seen photos of the ground with the castle in the background and had wanted to visit for years, and with Callum Smith (http://thewastedsaturdays.tumblr.com/) looking for a game, it seemed a straightforward plan to collect him from Eastleigh and still have plenty of time to wend our way along the A27 and visit the cornucopia of second-hand bookshops before the game. As ever, life didn’t work out that way, the A34 and M3 were choked by Olympic travellers Continue reading →

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  • FA Cup Factfile Phil Annets on all things to do with the World’s greatest cup competition 10
  • Football Club History Database Want to know where a club finished in what league and in what year? Richard Rundle’s site is a veritable goldmine! 0
  • Football Hopper “Fast” Eddie McGeown’s erudite perambulations around the nation’s football grounds 0
  • Gibbo's 92 As Atherton Colleries’ programme editor puts it, ” The best trips are random, unplanned and spontaneous.” 0
  • Groundhopping.se Per-Gunnar Nilsson’s trips around his native Sweden, and into Europe 0
  • Grounds for concern The late Mishi Morath’s picture blog. Obviously no longer updated but still a wonderful archive. 0
  • Kate Shrewsday. A thousand thousand stories Not about football, but beautiful writing, Kate can make words dance. 0
  • Los Boyos Matt is Welsh, a teacher, and lives in Malaga. His old “Lost Boyos” blog was essential reading. Here’s the Spanish Sequel!! 0
  • Modus Hopper Random Graham Yapp’s travels 0
  • The 100 Grounds Club Shaun Smith’s groundhopping football blog. The original internet ground logging website. 0
  • The Football Traveller The bible for every groundhopper. Non-League fixtures magazine delivered weekly. Published and edited by Chris Bedford 0
  • The Intinerant Football Watcher Peter finds the grounds other hoppers cannot reach. Top bloke too! 0
  • The66POW Rob Waite’s travels 0

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