Whoever you are 2020 was undoubtedly the year of Covid. This time last year we didn’t know what furlough meant, and thought Brexit would be the biggest challenge we’d face.
2020, the year
31 Thursday Dec 2020
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in31 Thursday Dec 2020
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inWhoever you are 2020 was undoubtedly the year of Covid. This time last year we didn’t know what furlough meant, and thought Brexit would be the biggest challenge we’d face.
29 Tuesday Dec 2020
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Court Place Farm, Football, groundhopping, hellenic league, Long Crendon, Non League, Oxford, Oxford City, Wallingford Town
Saturday 19th December 2020 ko 15.00
Hellenic League Division One East
LONG CRENDON 1 (Warwick 54)
WALLINGFORD TOWN 2 (Dean 43 Silkstone 85)
Att 36 at Oxford City FC
Entry £5
No Programme
You could say I was at this game because of Santa Claus! As you may know I’m part of a pub quiz team based at the Masons Arms in Oxford. Each Christmas we have a meal out at a local gastro-pub and exchange gifts in a “Secret Santa” arrangement. Covid of course had meant that meal out was impossible, but we decided to do the Secret Santa gift exchange, and I offered to play Santa for the afternoon and do the collections and deliveries from the doorsteps of our homes. The idea was afterwards to go and watch either of two Oxfordshire Senior League games. The first was Bicester-based Bure Park with Oxford Irish (based at Rose Hill Community Centre) as back-up. Both were 2pm kickoffs.
27 Sunday Dec 2020
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Athletic Newham, Eastern Counties League, Eastern Senior League, Fire United, Football, Frenford, Frenford Senior, groundhopping, Ilford, London, Lopes Tavares, Non League, The Drive
Monday 14th December 2020 ko 19.45
Eastern Counties League Division One South
FRENFORD 2 (Forbes 4 Fairhead 88)
Heatley penalty saved 52
ATHLETIC NEWHAM 2 (Idemudia 9 Kone 90p)
Kone sent off 90 (2nd booking)
Att 87
Entry £4
Programme £1
Monday night football will always attract the groundhoppers, and a club new to Step 6 will do so still further. Here though there was the added thought of exactly which league I was watching. In 2018 the Eastern Senior was created as a Step 6 league to feed the Essex Senior as a joint venture between that league and the Eastern Counties. It seemed to me that the league became rapidly swallowed up by the Eastern Counties League, and has become their Division One South. Now I’m not that worried by the nomenclature, but does anyone have a definitive answer? Continue reading
18 Friday Dec 2020
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East Beach Cafe, England, Football, groundhopping, Littlehampton, Non League, Peacehaven and Telscombe, Piddinghoe Avenue, Southern Combination, Steyning Town, Sussex, Sussex County League
Saturday 12th December 2020 ko 15.00
Southern Combination Premier Division
PEACEHAVEN & TELSCOMBE 2 (Benson 50 Webber 78)
STEYNING TOWN COMMUNITY 1 (Cousins 10)
Att 153
Entry £7
Programme online only
Lockdown #2 ended up lasting a couple of weeks longer than either Robyn or I planned, and the irony of both of us contracting Coronavirus during a lockdown isn’t lost on me. We were fortunate, very fortunate to contract only a mild strain of the disease and although we were pretty wiped out for a few days we quickly recovered, with fatigue being the last symptom to fade away. But that fact did influence where we went. I wanted to break up the driving a little, I wasn’t comfortable with the marathon stints I’ve taken on in the past. That brought an idea from the past into my head…. Continue reading
11 Friday Dec 2020
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Barry Town, Bridgend Town, Bryntirion Athletic, Coychurch Road, Non League, Old Grounds, Pen Y Bont, Wales, welsh football
Friday 6th January 2006 ko 19.30
Welsh League Division One
BRIDGEND TOWN 0
BARRY TOWN 1 (Reddy)
Att c100
Entry £3
Programme 50p
My abiding memory of this game was arriving at Coychurch Road far too early, around 6pm as I didn’t know what time this game was to kick-off at. I knew nothing back then of course Coychurch Road had staged Southern League football, and Bridgend’s stint in English football had only ended in 1983, when the club had opted back into Welsh football.
The night’s visitors had been one of the “Irate Eight” who on the formation of the League of Wales in 1992 had wanted to remain in the English game. They’d played one season as Barri AFC playing out of Worcester City before returning to the Welsh game a season later. Perhaps that’s why they didn’t know what time kick-off time was either…
07 Monday Dec 2020
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Coach Road, Devon FA Ground, Devon League, Devon Premier Cup, groundhopping, Newton Abbot, Non League, Tamarside
Friday 27th October 2006 ko 19.30
Devon Premier Cup – 3rd Round
NEWTON ABBOT AFC 2 (Friend 4 Vicary 6)
Ford sent off (violent conduct) 68
TAMARSIDE 1 (Knight 76)
Att c100
Entry £2
Programme 50p
I’m sure you all know about Newton Abbot’s football club, perhaps you ticked off Newton Abbot Spurs on the 2018 South West Peninsula Hop? But there was another team in the Devon Town, playing games at the Devon FA Ground in Coach Road. I was fortunate enough to watch them play, but it was only due to a benevolent piece of influence, from Sweden of all places! Continue reading
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Bexley, Bexley United, Erith and Belvedere, Football, groundhopping, park view Road, Welling United
Thursday 16th November 2006 ko 19.45
London Senior Cup 2nd Round
WELLING UNITED 1 (Cunha 13)
TOOTING & MITCHAM UNITED 2 ( Gibbs 55 Green 68)
Att c150
Entry & Teamsheet £6
On the face of it there are no end of clubs in groundshares; you really don’t need me to give examples! Suffice it to say the rule amongst groundhoppers is to tick off the ground for either the landlords, or of there isn’t one, then the primary tenant. But in a hobby that attracts those who like their rules to be both hard and fast there are a few exceptions! Continue reading