21 Thursday Jan 2016
Posted in F
Wednesday 13th January 2016 ko 19.45
Norfolk Senior Cup Quarter Final
SPIXWORTH 0
DEREHAM TOWN 2 (Borrer 39 Swatman 41)
Att 199 at FDC, Bowthorpe, Norwich
Entry £5
Programme £2
Just occasionally groundhopping throws up something a little unusual. Sometimes it’s a trip inside a Military Stadium or a ground that is completely homemade but at other times it’s a little more prosiac. Continue reading
11 Monday Jan 2016
Posted in S
Tags
Cardiff, Ely Rangers, South Wales Amateur league, South Wales Senior League, STM Sports, University of Cardiff playing fields, Wales, Welsh League
Saturday 9th January 2016 ko 14.00
Welsh League Division 3
STM SPORTS 4 (Worsley M Nessbert 48 Davenport 63 83)
ELY RANGERS 1 (K Johnson 65)
Att 80
Entry & Programme £3
It has to be said that I’m a lucky boy. I have a girlfriend Robyn who loves football, and she asked to come to one of my non-league jaunts. Now that gave me one of those problems you love to have, which ground and game to show her? I settled on an icon of the Welsh game for her first Welsh non-league game, the frankly stunning Blandy Park, home to Garw, on the basis that if she didn’t like it there, she wouldn’t like non-league full stop. Of course life never quite works out how you plan it does it? Continue reading
11 Monday Jan 2016
Posted in B
Tuesday 5th January 2016 ko 19.45
Isthmian League Division One North
BRIGHTLINGSEA REGENT 4 (Read 20 27 Kelly 43 Malton 56)
WALTHAM ABBEY 1 (Daveney 79)
Att 107
Entry £8
Programme £1
I do enjoy my visits to this part of the world. Whether its Felixstowe & Walton on the Suffolk side, or the likes of Clacton and Harwich & Parkeston on the Essex side, and the latter is an absolute must-visit by the way, there’s a vibrancy about the clubs even if sometimes their circumstances are less than ideal. Brightlingsea proved to be a case in point. Continue reading
06 Wednesday Jan 2016
Posted in F
Tags
AFC Fylde, Birley Arms, Chorley, Conference North, Kellamergh Park, Kirkham and Wesham, National League, Warton
Saturday 2nd January 2016 ko 15.00
National League North
AFC FYLDE 1 (Rowe 84)
CHORLEY 0 Dean missed penalty 23
Att 903
Entry £12
Programme £2
Teamsheet 20p
There can’t be many clubs who play their final game under one name at Wembley. That distinction goes to AFC Fylde who won the 2008 FA Vase as Kirkham & Wesham, then changed their name for their next season, elevated to the Northern Premier League. It doesn’t take much imagination to work out why either. Continue reading
04 Monday Jan 2016
Tuesday 29th December 2015 ko 19.45
Wessex League Division One
PORTLAND UNITED 1 (Godfrey 15)
RINGWOOD TOWN 0 Roberts sent off 67 (dangerous play)
Att 171
Entry £5
Programme (excellent) 50p
In Wessex League circles there is a standing joke that they are the only Step 5/6 league that gets to play European football, via of course the 3 visits to the Isle of Wight clubs, Cowes Sports, Newport (IW) and East Cowes Victoria. Well I reckon by the island rule, there’s now another European trip in the Wessex… to Portland! Continue reading
01 Friday Jan 2016
Posted in B
Saturday 28th December 2015 ko 19.45
Isthmian League Division One
BARKINGSIDE 0
HARINGEY BOROUGH 1 (Kamara 57)
Att 114 at Cricklefields Stadium, Seven Kings (Ilford FC)
Entry & Programme £9
Just under two years ago I paid a visit to Oakside Park and was both pleasantly surprised and saddened in equal measure. The ground is the kind of hotch potch that groundhoppers love, and Barkingside’s chairman Jimmy Flanagan was heroically keeping the club going almost single-handed, whilst welcoming just about everyone through the turnstile. The sadness was that they were unable to pay the rent increase on the ground, so were about to vacate the ground they’d built. I was sufficiently taken by both Jimmy and Barkingside to want to catch up with them. Continue reading
01 Friday Jan 2016
Posted in C
Saturday 28th December 2015 ko 15.00
Eastern Counties League Premier Division
FC CLACTON 2 (Cowden 56p 83)
STANWAY ROVERS 4 (Shaw 12 29 55 Palmer 87)
Att 220
Entry £7
Programme £1
It may have been a case of a 25 minute drive from Felixstowe to a game in the same division and league but the Rush Green Bowl is a step up in quality from Dellwood Avenue, and the sense of occasion was obvious. It wasn’t easy to find a parking spot but once through the turnstile the club’s sense of unconscious competence was impressive. Continue reading
30 Wednesday Dec 2015
Posted in F
Tags
Dellwood Avenue, Eastern Counties League, Felixstowe, Felixstowe and Walton, Goldstar, Suffolk, Thurlow Nunn, United, Whitton United
Monday 28th December 2015 ko 12.00
Eastern Counties League Premier Division
FELIXSTOWE & WALTON UNITED 2 (Schaar 30 Driver 55)
WHITTON UNITED 0
Att 222
Entry £6
Programme £1
Now very much with my North Berkshire League committeeman hat on I’m going to make a statement that might surprise you. I feel sorry for Felixstowe, yes that’s right! Perhaps I should explain why. Continue reading
26 Saturday Dec 2015
Posted in C
Tags
AD Ceuta, Africa, Alfonso Murube, Algeciras, carmelitas, Carmelitos, Ceuta, Ceuta FF, Ferry, Football, Ramon y cajal, Spain, Sports
Sunday 20th December 2015 ko 17.00
Copa Regional de Ceuta- Final
CARMELITAS 1 (Jose 34p) Juande Dios sent off 57 (DOGSO)
RAMON Y CAJAL 4 (Alessandro 24 Cristian 81 Nabil 87 Hamid Oulad 90)
Chakin missed penalty 59
Cristian sent off 90 (violent conduct)
Att c300 at Estadio Alfonso Murube, Ceuta
Entry FREE
Programme NO
The difficulty in planning any football in Spain is that the fixtures aren’t fixed until less than a week beforehand. If it’s league fixture, then you can predict with a reasonable degree of certainty that the game will take place on a given weekend, but that could be any time between Friday and Monday, although the part-time Segunda B, and Tercera divisions are far more likely to play on Saturdays and Sundays. All you can do is cover your options and wait. And there were so many good reasons to visit Ceuta too…. Continue reading
24 Thursday Dec 2015
Saturday 19th December 2015 ko 17.00
Segunda B Grupo 4
ALGECIRAS CF 2 (Javi Medina 6 Javi Chico 90)
LA HOYA LORCA 1 (Roberto 83)
Att c3,500
Entry (Tribuna- main stand) €15 (£11)
No Programme
If ever there was the very epitomy of a port town it’s Algeciras. If you want to know where your Spanish import said goodbye to it’s mother country, chances are that it was the port the other side of the bay from Gibraltar. The town has always been associated with the sea, firstly from smuggling from North Africa, then via more conventional trading routes. In fact the real surprise for me was just how difficult the Estadio Neuvo Mirador was to reach from a base in Gibraltar. Continue reading
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