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Another kind of hopping

02 Wednesday Apr 2025

Posted by laurencereade in W

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Baldon Sports Ground, Cray Valley Paper Mills FC, Football, Goals Eltham, groundhopping, Maidenhead United, National League U19 Alliance, Non League, Welling United

Friday 7th March 2025 11:00

National League U19 Alliance-South Division

WELLING UNITED 4 (13 24p 71 90+2p)

MAIDENHEAD UNITED 0

Att 5 at Goals Eltham, Baldon Sports Ground, Eltham Palace Road

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I’m well used to explaining my rather odd hobby to people, a starting point is usually “Some folks collect stamps or coins, I collect visits to football grounds” and then the next question is invariably “how many?” and that produces incredulity, to which my response is that there are people who watch far more football than I do! This game was in part to demonstrate that, and try out what some of the more committed hoppers do.

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