Tags
banstead athletic, England, Football, groundhopping, hellenic league, Non League, The Timbers, Virginia Water
Tuesday 22nd July 2018 ko 19.15
Pre-season Friendly
VIRGINIA WATER 1 (Griffiths 25)
BANSTEAD ATHLETIC 3 (Holden 11 38 Evered 88og)
Att 40 at The Timbers
15 years ago, when I started groundhopping this is what Step 6 in the South-East looked like. For the most part, a railed off pitch with a clubhouse was all you needed, and it was only when you started heading north that the difference in facilities became obvious. I remember a group of London-based hoppers not coming on one of the early Central Midlands Hops, because they’d decided there’d be all fields. The depressing thought is that I still hear these bleats even now. Remember the Notts-based hopper who told everyone 2-3 years ago that the South Peninsula League Hop would be “All fields”. What? St Austell? Wendron? Continue reading