Monthly Archives: July 2025

Epic

31 Thursday Jul 2025

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Saturday 18th May ko 18:00

Championnat National 3 Groupe E

RACING CLUB DE CALAIS 3 (Merien 6 Sylla 14og Knockhaert 58)

STADE DE REIMS II 1 (Diadeie 47)

Att c500 at Stade de l’Épopée

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I must admit, a trip to France wasn’t on my list of priorities for the end of the 24/25 football season, but sometimes a random conversation changes everything. Here the conversation was between Robyn and Chris Garrett (he’s a weatherman) at the hop game at Newquay. He’d spotted a fairly random game at Racing Club Calais on a Saturday evening making it straightforward enough to get there and back via the Channel Tunnel in a day.

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The Chicken And The Egg

21 Monday Jul 2025

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Saturday 10th May 2026 ko 15:00

Alex Horne’s Comedy Trophy

CHICKEN CITY 6 (Adam 18 Grant 29 75 Smith 79 Robins 35 90)

EGG UNITED 7 (Euman 6 Daly 14 Key 52 59 Baker 56 McQueen 77)

Egg won 4-4 on penalties 😉

Att 3,992 (all ticket-sold out) at Chesham United

Entry £12

Programme & Teamsheet £3

Now there are plenty of grounds you’d happily visit once, but very few you’d revisit time and time again, so when Chesham United volunteer Giles Stevenson suggested an end of season charity game, and one I could pair with the North Berkshire cup final that evening, Robyn and I jumped at the chance. And now I think of it, the suggestion came on March 1st, just after Giles handed Robyn a bunch of Daffodils as it was St David’s Day. The joke that Bristolian Robyn is basically Welsh is a long running joke. A joke you see….

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Football From A Stone

20 Sunday Jul 2025

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Wednesday 7th May 2025 ko 18:30

Aylesbury & District League Premier Division

AW FC 1 (Sheppard 37)

GREAT MISSENDEN 3 (Smith 18 73 Stephenson 59)

Att 11 at St John’s Sports & Social, Stone

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If you drive on the A418 between Thame and Aylesbury then inevitably you’ll pass through the pretty village of Stone. It’s one of those places that thousands of people drive through giving the place barely a thought. But there is plenty to enthuse….

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Communique

16 Wednesday Jul 2025

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Saturday 5th May 2025 ko 15:00

Kent County League Premier Division

METROGAS 3 (Wall 27 Meledje 67 90+1)

PECKHAM TOWN 0

Att 52

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The issue I tend to have with some locations is that it can be difficult to predict just how long it is going to take to get there? That goes double for anything within the M25 so with another trip to New Eltham in the offing, I planned a little detour with the idea being that it could be ditched if the traffic misbehaved- on this occasion it didn’t, so we spent a few minutes in Deptford.

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Gary

16 Wednesday Jul 2025

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Saturday 3rd May 2025 ko 14:30

West Yorkshire League-Premier Division

LITTLETOWN 3 (Reece Thompson 8 11 31)

POOL AFC 1 (Farrimond 88)

Att c50 at Beck Lane, Heckmondwike

If you are ever stuck for a game, and wonder where to head to on a Saturday I’ve long opined that a fair stating point are either of Peter Miles’ excellent articles “20 Glorious” and “20 More Glorious Non-League Grounds“

Sadly, the likes of Consett’s wonderful Belle Vue are no more, but there are still some gems to go after, and I for one have always got Pete’s list in the back of my mind when I’m thinking about where to go. Beck Lane in Heckmondwike is on the second list, so it was an easy decision when I spotted they were at home, and I was free…

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Halsbury

11 Friday Jul 2025

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Tuesday 29th April 2025 ko 18:30

Middlesex County League Premier Division

LARKSPUR ROVERS 3 (Durrant 24 O Lewis 65 Bransbury 90+3)

LONDON TIGERS 0

Att 26 at Lord Halsbury Playing Fields, Northolt

For those in the know, the Middlesex County League almost always provides a source of late season, non floodlit evening games. There is a quirk, the league is one of very few that still uses the Mitoo website fixtures but it is reliable, so Robyn and I used a Middlesex game to bookend what had been a fairly brutal April for football.

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Cricket?

10 Thursday Jul 2025

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Thursday 24th April 2025 ko 18:30

Witney & District League Hughes Supplementary Cup Semi-Final

ASTON RESERVES 3 (Harper 18 Wain 53 Pawar 60og)

SHERBORNE HARRIERS 0

Att 30 at Stanton Harcourt Cricket Ground

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I know I’ve said it before, but I do think every football fan ought to go and watch the Sherborne Harriers at least once. I was honoured to take 120 or so hoppers there during the days of the Witney Hop and the day turned into something far more than a fundraiser, important though that is at grassroots.

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Icons

06 Sunday Jul 2025

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Monday 21st April 2025 ko 15:00

EFL Championship

CARDIFF CITY 1 (Salech 56)

OXFORD UNITED 1 (Brannagan 79)

Att 23,407 (3,095 away)

Entry £27

Programme £3.50

There really wasn’t a more appropriate game for Robyn and I. After the Peninsula Hop we’d broken the journey back to Oxford seeing family in Bristol, so hopping over the border to Cardiff for Robyn to tick off the Cardiff City Stadium and me to watch Oxford United just made sense!

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Third Time Lucky

04 Friday Jul 2025

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Sunday 20th April 2025 ko 12:00

South West Peninsula League Premier East

HONITON TOWN 0

SIDMOUTH TOWN 2 (Veal 32 Spalding 86)

Att 444

Entry £6

Programme £2

I remember back in the day, well 2015, GroundhopUK sorted of hosted a game at Cardiff Met FC. For us it was a precursor to a hop over the next two days in the Ceredigion League. There were all the trappings of a hop game, but it wasn’t part of the schedule, and we saw similar here at Honiton. The reason, though was entirely different…

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