Monthly Archives: May 2025

Peppermint

27 Tuesday May 2025

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Thursday 17th April 2025 ko 19:45

South West Peninsula League Premier West

NEWQUAY AFC 5 (Price 18 31 MacConie 81 Cole 90+2)

WENDRON UNITED 0

Att 1,854

Advance Ticket for all games on the hop £55

Entry £6

Programme £3

This year’s South West Peninsula League Hop was especially interesting on a few levels. The first was that the hop wasn’t just in the Peninsula League, organiser Phil Hiscox had decided to take in clubs in both the National League South and the St Piran Leagues. It certainly added more colour to an always excellent event.

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The Sun Still Shines

21 Wednesday May 2025

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Saturday 12th April 2025 ko 15:00

Championship

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 0

OXFORD UNITED 1 (Long 79)

Att 25,646

Entry £33

Programme £3.50

If you’re going to visit all the iconic football grounds in England I’d suggest that Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough would be close to the top of just about any list. The ground dates from 1899, and post World War II became one of the country’s pre-eminent grounds. The first of 26 FA Cup semi finals here here took place in 1915.

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The Elephant

20 Tuesday May 2025

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Saturday 29th March 2025 ko 14:00

Oxfordshire Senior League Division Two

WITNEY TOWN 5 (Oliver 22 Morton 63 76 86 Holloway-Carney 90+3)

BLETCHINGTON 1 (Simpson 37)

Att 88 at Witney ATP, Gordon Way

Entry & Programme- By Donation

You could argue this is Witney Town’s third incarnation. The first played Witney Town played at Marriotts Close, got as far as the Southern League, moved to Oakey Park later renamed Marriotts Stadium in 1992, but were controversially folded by chairman Brian Constable in 2001. A phoenix club, Witney United were formed and based at Marriotts Stadium and entered the Hellenic League in 2002. They renamed themselves Witney Town in 2011, but debts saw the club liquidated in 2013.

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The Return To Something Big

19 Monday May 2025

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Saturday 23rd March 2025 ko 19:45

Essex Senior League

TAKELEY 2 (Westcott 63 Miles 90+5)

SAFFRON WALDEN TOWN 0

Att 586

Non-League Day “Passport” £30

Entry £8

Programme £2

It has to be said there was a lot more time available to get from Little Oakley to Takeley than there had from Benfleet to Little Oakley earlier in the day. So much so there was enough time to visit a nearby chippy and listen to the planes roaring over our heads, taking off and landing at Stansted airport. Once we arrived at Station Road it was obvious we were, like at Benfleet, visiting something big.

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The One In The Middle

16 Friday May 2025

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Saturday 23rd March 2025 ko 15:30

Essex Senior League

LITTLE OAKLEY 1 (Harris 37og)

Papple sent off (violent conduct) 90+1

STANWAY ROVERS 2 (Okoye 41 Maycock 45+1)

Chatting sent off (violent conduct) 90+1

Att 111

Non-League Day “Passport” £30

Entry £6

Programme FREE

After the Benfleet game it seemed that the hordes scattered to the four winds. There were no end of options for the middle game of the three on the Essex Senior League’s Non League Day event, albeit those of us with the passports were limited to clubs within the league. For me I had two options that would represent a new ground, Little Oakley or Athletic Newham and it was fairly obvious which one I favoured.

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Our Friends in the East

14 Wednesday May 2025

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Saturday 22nd March 2025 ko 12:00

Essex Senior League

BENFLEET 4 (Purdy 28 Saunders 34 Shave 37 Hartman 89)

FC CLACTON 2 (Miller 4 Bright 40)

Att 702

Non-League Day “Passport” £30

Entry £7

Programme sold out

Event brochure £1

After two organised hops in March on one level the last thing I wanted was another. But then there’s always something to learn from other folks’ events, and I was the only part of the GroundhopUK team available! There was also more to it than just a set of staggered kick-offs too, with it being the league’s “Non League Day” attraction, and a fundraiser for the “Prostate Cancer UK” charity too. But what really interested me was the advance ticketing…

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West, yes!

13 Tuesday May 2025

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Sunday 16th March 2025 ko 12:30

East of Scotland League Third Division

LINTON HOTSPUR 2 (Martin 4 McLean 49)

LIVINGSTON UNITED 0

Att 372

Entry £5

Programme £2

Sunday’s fixture on the Scottish Hop saw a complete change of locale. We’d spent a day and a half visiting industrial, and post-industrial towns in the Central Belt. Now it was time to head south and make for the border.

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Wee Help

06 Tuesday May 2025

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Saturday 15th March 2025 ko 10:45

Lowland League

ALBION ROVERS 0

BO’NESS UNITED 0

Att 379

Entry £11

Programme £2

Sometimes I do worry that people forget one of the points of the organized groundhop. Yes, part of it is to allow groundhoppers to tick off multiple grounds over a weekend, but it’s just as much there to act as a fundraiser for the host clubs, and perhaps never before has that side of these events been so important as here.

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