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Stur

28 Sunday Dec 2025

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Barnetts Field, Dorset, Dorset Premier League, Football, groundhopping, Non League, Premier League, soccer, Sports, Sturminster Newton, Sturminster Newton United, travel, Wells City, Western League

Tuesday 18th September 2025 ko 19:45

Western League Division One

STURMINSTER NEWTON UNITED 5 (Lane-Leney 19 52 Bevis 20 57 Hall 54)

WELLS CITY 2 (Wright 13p Taylor 44)

Att 144

Entry £8

Programme £2

In so many ways a visit to Barnett’s Field left like tidying up loose ends. You may recall I’d visited this corner of Dorset to visit Sturminster Newton’s former home, the War Memorial Recreation Park 10 years ago. That was to see a game in the now sadly defunct Blackmore Vale Sunday League, and in the days when I was a fairly regular visitor here, that league never failed to provide me with interesting games to go and see.

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Wild West End

28 Sunday Dec 2025

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CK Swiss Valley, Football, Garden Village, groundhopping, GroundhopUK, Non League, Penlan, Premier League, Pri Deri Park, soccer, Sports, Swansea, West End, West Wales Premier League

Sunday 13th September 2025

11:00 West Wales Premier League

GARDEN VILLAGE 1 (Arnold 61)

CK SWISS VALLEY 1 (James 84)

Caul sent off (2nd booking) 87

Att 136

14:30 (but brought forward to 14:15)

West Wales Premier League

WEST END 1 (Griffiths 36)

Brain sent off 59 (dangerous play)

PENLAN 4 (Lorey 17 Jenkins 75p Otten 90 T Jenkins 90+4)

Charles sent off 59 (dangerous play)

Att 84

Entry & Programme at each game £5

It was (for now) the final day of the West Wales Premier League Hop- but we knew we had a problem, or more accurately two. The first issue was that we at GroundhopUK knew that both Garden Village and West End had recent history in the Welsh League, and given the crowd we’d attracted on the Saturday there was a fair chance that many of them would have visited the Sunday selection before and so headed for home.

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