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The Colour of Magic

20 Sunday Oct 2013

Posted by laurencereade in W

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Dave O'Hare, Devizes, Dorset Premier League, Dorset Senior League, Keiran Davis, Lee Gale, Town, Western League, Wincanton, Wincanton Racecourse, Yeovil Town

Saturday 19th October 2013 ko 15.00

Western League Division One

WINCANTON TOWN 5 (O’Hare 2 35 Gale 12 90 Davis 89)

DEVIZES TOWN 0

Att 51

Entry £5

Programme £1

To the groundhopper the A303 is something of a mixed blessing. The arterial road has no end of interesting sites to visit, and a multiplicity of quirky football grounds to be discovered. If you haven’t been to these two, Amesbury http://wp.me/p1PehW-pz and Gillingham http://wp.me/p1PehW-fh are highly recommended. The downside of the road is the congested traffic particularly around Stonehenge, it’s always a good idea to factor in an extra 30 minutes for your journey.

Wincanton is a small market town which is just about in Somerset. In fact to give you an idea of how close to the border with Dorset you are, the football club played for much of its history in the Somerset Senior League before transferring to the Dorset Senior League then being promoted to the Dorset Premier League. Last season they finished runners-up and gained promotion to the Western League for the first time in their history.

Of course in sporting terms the town is far more famous for Continue reading →

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