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Abingdon Town, Culham Road, Eastern Counties League, North Berkshire Groundhop, North Berkshire League, Saxton Rovers, South West Peninsula League
Friday 19th September 2014 ko 19.30
North Berkshire League Division One
ABINGDON TOWN 3 (Barroso 28 Lightfoot 83 Sutton 90og)
SAXTON ROVERS 0
Att 192
Entry & Programme £4
The North Berkshire League has held 3 annual groundhops, but for this year’s event I was handed a couple of dilemnas that weren’t of my own making. Firstly, I’ve spent each of the last 3 years bemoaning the lack of floodlights in the league, so I ought to have been pleased when Abingdon Town dropped into the league. That was due to a landlord charging a rent the club could ill-afford when they’d been flooded for 3 months at a time for each of the last 2 years. The trouble was that the club had been on a Hellenic hop back in the day, which normally would mean that they wouldn’t get another game. However I wanted to help the club and chairman Tom Larman, so we decided to stage the game as a Friday night precursor to the main event. The other problem though, had the potential to be altogether more serious. Continue reading