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butchers arms, Dorchester, Football, groundhop, groundhoppers, groundhopping, headington, Non League, North Berkshire League, Oxford City FA League, Sandy Lane
Wednesday 11th April 2018 ko 18.00
Oxford City FA League
HEADINGTON BUTCHERS 1 (Rowbotham 80)
DORCHESTER 3 (Kay 18 Brown 46 J Lyne 58)
Att 5 at Sandy Lane Sports Ground, Oxford
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By far the most common question about groundhopping I get asked is how many grounds I’ve done. It’s an obvious one, but it’s also one with little meaning, after all it’s a figure that is only really relevant to myself. There is no award, thank God, to the groundhopper with the most grounds visited. I used to celebrate each hundredth ground I visited, 900 was the Cardiff City Stadium, and the thousandth was Newbridge (on Wye) Town.
Since then those milestones have felt less and less important, but there was an unintended consequence of Honiton Town’s game on the Easter Hop being moved to Exwick Villa, a ground I’d visited before. Continue reading