Monthly Archives: January 2025

Priorities

29 Wednesday Jan 2025

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Saturday 11th January 2025 ko 15:00

FA Cup 3rd Round

EXETER CITY 3 (Mitchell 22 40 Harper 63)

OXFORD UNITED 1 (Phillips 13)

Goodrham sent off 81 (violent conduct)

Att 6,149 (640 away)

Entry (Lounge Hospitality/ 2 course meal) £55

Programme £1 (included in hospitality)

No matter who you support, if you’ve made it to the FA Cup 3rd round you look for a good draw don’t you? If you’re a Championship or Premier League club you look for a lower league club at home, and hopefully a straightforward route to the fourth round. If you’re from the leagues that have had to win games to get here, then you want a glamour, money-spinning tie. I’d argue that League 1 Exeter City versus Championship Oxford United added up to neither.. unless you were Robyn and I.

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Legacy

28 Tuesday Jan 2025

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Saturday 4th January 2025 ko 15:00

Sheffield & Hallamshire League- Premier Division

SHEFFIELD CITY 0

JUBILEE SPORTS 6 (Barnsley 25 Turner 60 Evison 65p Taylor 83 Reet 86 90+6)

Att 31 at Sheffield Olympic Legacy Stadium, Attercliffe

Free Entry

It is a curiosity that the Olympic Legacy Stadium may well be part of the legacy of the 2012 London Olympics, and is the only such stadium built outwith the host city, but its roots lie with a completely different Olympics.

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Lucky Ducks

23 Thursday Jan 2025

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Wednesday 1st January 2025 ko 15:00

Northern Premier League-Premier Division

WHITBY TOWN 0

Gell sent off (2nd booking) 74

STOCKTON TOWN 2 (Sweet 70 Nicholson 76)

Att 826

Entry £12

Programme £2.50

I do question my sanity sometimes. A 4 hour trip north the morning after a New Year party, in the aftermath of the a storm affecting the North East and Scotland. In fact so daft was my idea we cruised into Whitby far earlier than we needed to be, which got me thinking…

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Gloucs’ in Somerset

20 Monday Jan 2025

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Thursday 28th December 2024 ko 14:00

Gloucestershire County League

TOTTERDOWN UNITED 5 (Tobin 2 24 45 Lowell 21 C Hemming 69)

ALMONDSBURY 4 (Lancastle 43 Hill 45+3 Alrawi 71 Mannings 90p)

Morgan sent off 86 (2nd booking)

Free Entry

Programme online only (non-downloadable)

With Robyn my wife being from Bristol, it’s fair to day I’ve seen plenty of the city and since she’s from Knowle West I’ve seen plenty of Totterdown. If you’ve ever been past Temple Meads station then headed south and climbed up the Wells Road you’ve been to Totterdown.

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The BSA

18 Saturday Jan 2025

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Saturday 21st December 2024 ko 14:00

Oxfordshire Senior League, Premier Division

BICESTER TOWN COLTS 1 (Patrick 39)

THAME UNITED RESERVES 4 (Johnston 3 64 Bonwick 46 Carr 55)

Att 4 at Bicester Sports Association, Akeman Street, Chesterton

If finding a far flung game on the Friday I finish work is part of my pre-Christmas routine, then finding one closer to home on the Saturday is too. The rationale is easy, I’m part of a pub quiz team, we organise a Christmas meal out each year and since one of us requires it, we eat early.

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Dearne

16 Thursday Jan 2025

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Friday 20th December 2024 ko 19:45

Northern Counties East League Division One

DEARNE & DISTRICT 0

WORSBROUGH BRIDGE 3 (Grist 4 62 Brown 62)

Att 208

Entry £5

No Programme

It seems that just before Christmas there’s usually a couple of Friday night games, seemingly to tempt groundhoppers who’d finished work for the festive break. It does pay to be adaptable though, at lunchtime I’d planned on being South Wales, not South Yorkshire. Thanks to Phil Sweet of the South Wales Alliance for the early heads-up of a waterlogged pitch at Llwydcoed!

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The Other Side

13 Monday Jan 2025

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Tuesday 17th December 2024 ko 19:30

Argonaut Trophy

SOUTHERN AMATEUR LEAGUE 1 (Kelly 90+1)

AMATEUR FOOTBALL COMBINATION 2 (Sherriff-Jolly 33 50)

Att c20 at Quintin Hogg Memorial Sports Ground, Chiswick

Free Entry (although parking is chargeable, via an App)

In rugby the schism of 1895 is still obvious. Back then the Northern Rugby Union broke away from the established Rugby Football Union (RFU) to allow for professionalism. In Association football the schism happened in 1907 , albeit in reverse. The clubs wanting amateurism formed the Amateur Football Association and left the Football Association rather than the other way round. I’ll never forget that wonderful quote dating from the time describing professionalism as the, “Fungus growth which had become attached to the machinery of football management!” 

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Penpole

09 Thursday Jan 2025

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Tuesday 10th December 2024 ko 19:45

Gloucestershire FA Challenge Trophy- 2nd Round

SHIREHAMPTON 0

HALLEN 2 (Thomas-Barker 27 79)

Att 120

Entry £6

Programme- online only

With Robyn my wife being from Bristol I was a little surprised I hadn’t paid Penpole Lane a visit sooner. Shirehampton’s elevation to the Western League for last season has produced the frankly amazing position where they, Avonmouth, Cribbs, Hallen and Bristol Manor Farm are all within 3 miles of Penpole Lane, and all play at Western League level or better! You’ll pass by the alleyway entrance of Avonmouth’s King George V Recreation Ground on the way to Shirehampton, the two grounds are less than a mile apart!

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Starship

08 Wednesday Jan 2025

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Tuesday 3rd December 2024 ko 19:45

Isthmian League Division One North

CAMBRIDGE CITY 0

WALTHAM ABBEY 1 (Hallett 80)

Att 442

Entry £10

Programme £3

“Say you don’t know me or recognize my face
Say you don’t care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night.

Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don’t you remember?
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll“

Starship “We built this City”

Songwriters: Dennis Lambert / Peter F. Wolf / Martin George Page / Bernard Taupin

My wife Robyn called it correctly, “Why do groundhoppers tend to dive straight for a new ground as soon as its open? Surely you should aim for the grounds that are facing demolition?” The case of Cambridge City was one that added up to both though!

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John Jenkins

06 Monday Jan 2025

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Tuesday 26th November 2024 ko 19:45

Russell Cotes Cup First Round

MONEYFIELDS 4 (Kamin 14 Sargeant 23 Mahammedkier 67 De Sousa 83)

BAFFINS MILTON ROVERS 1 (Lukonyomoi 2)

Att 117

Entry £5

Programme £1

You may recall that a few years ago I visited the Portsmouth suburb of Copnor for the Moneyfields Sports Ground, named after the avenue on which it was located. The trains rumbled past behind the goal past the site of a station that was never built.

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