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Caracas

08 Tuesday Apr 2025

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Friday 14th March 2025 ko 19:45

Lowland League

CUMBERNAULD COLTS 2 (Duncan 10og Ross 40)

BROXBURN ATHLETIC 0

Att 375 at Broadwood Stadium

Entry £6

Programme £2

It is always a brutal journey to the Scottish Hop but for me it’s great joy has been watching it’s evolution. From a conversation at Camelon Juniors in 2014, Jamie McQueen’s stirling work while at Whitehill Welfare, Chris Berezai’s marathon driving stints to meet the Lowland League, through to that first game at East Kilbride this event has never come with the huge history of the organised hop south of the border.

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Starship

08 Wednesday Jan 2025

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Tuesday 3rd December 2024 ko 19:45

Isthmian League Division One North

CAMBRIDGE CITY 0

WALTHAM ABBEY 1 (Hallett 80)

Att 442

Entry £10

Programme £3

“Say you don’t know me or recognize my face
Say you don’t care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night.

Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don’t you remember?
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll“

Starship “We built this City”

Songwriters: Dennis Lambert / Peter F. Wolf / Martin George Page / Bernard Taupin

My wife Robyn called it correctly, “Why do groundhoppers tend to dive straight for a new ground as soon as its open? Surely you should aim for the grounds that are facing demolition?” The case of Cambridge City was one that added up to both though!

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The Crows Arms

16 Monday Dec 2024

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Saturday 26th October 2024 ko 17:45

Southern Combination Premier Division

CROWBOROUGH ATHLETIC 2 (Forster 6 18)

HASSOCKS 1 (Funnell 4)

Att 413

Entry £7

Programme £2

I must admit I treated the Saturday evening game on the Sussex Hop with a certain amount of trepidation. It wasn’t that Crowborough might do badly, rather it was me considering the antonym of the maxim “Smaller clubs tend to make more of an effort.”

Please don’t see this as a dig at any one club, more a comment that the vast majority of clubs with a history at Southern, Isthmian or Northern Premier League level can cope with hosting a hop game’s crowd. The catch is by scaling up and no more the club does miss out on additional revenue and the hopper gets to swerve the burgers…. again!

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Another Dawn

19 Tuesday Nov 2024

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Sunday 6th October 2024 ko 11:00

Southern Counties East League Premier Division

CORINTHIAN 2 (Arnold 10 Fitzgerald 13)

ERITH & BELVEDERE 1 (Melconian 80)

Att 247

Entry £9

Programme £2

I’d long since changed my way of thinking once it became clear that in my terms the SCEFL Hop was going to be, in my terms, six revisits. Other than a social event, there was the idea of how 200 or so hoppers might react to each of the host clubs. However I knew everyone would love Corinthian…

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Parkhouse

16 Monday Sep 2024

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Saturday 3rd August 2024 ko 15:00

United Counties League Division One

CLAY CROSS TOWN 5 (Macaskill 26 75 Clegg 46 54 63)

Clegg missed penalty 12

CLIFTON ALL WHITES 1 (Jasper 89)

Att 161

Entry £6

Programme £2

I’m a contrary soul, so you would have thought after a weekend watching 5 games in the United Counties League, the very last place you’d expect me to be at is another UCL ground. But there were some extenuating circumstances…

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Resurrection

13 Friday Sep 2024

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Sunday 28th July 2024 ko 12:00

United Counties League Division One

COALVILLE TOWN 0

SOUTHWELL CITY 1 (Eckers 15)

Att 792

Entry £7

Programme £2

When we at GroundhopUK started to put together this edition of the UCL Hop the thought of going to Owen Street hadn’t crossed our minds. Coalville were nicely esconced in the Southern League Premier Central, but then came the shocking news that they wrere resigning, citing financial difficulties. They were quickly accepted by the United Counties League which immediately created an unusual situation for us.

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Pretty Flamingo

19 Monday Aug 2024

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Saturday 13th July 2024 ko 15:00

Heritage Cup

CRAY WANDERERS 0

SHEFFIELD FC 4 (A Smith 45 Watson 54 62 Aldrich 58)

Att 466 at Flamingo Park, Sidcup

Entry £10

Programme £2

I know why I’d been attracted to this one, and it wasn’t the quasi-competive fixture. Without ever trying since returning from Sweden I’d watched my football at a steady succession of 3G cages and I was getting heartily bored of them. I chose to ignore Flamingo Park having a 3G pitch…

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All Weather

19 Wednesday Jun 2024

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Monday 6th May 2024 ko 11:00

Mid-Sussex League-Premier Division

CRAWLEY DEVILS 2 (Cullen 31 Groves 90)

Lyden sent off 81 (2nd booking)

OXTED & DISTRICT 2 (McLean 49 Clements 83)

Att c25 at Warden Park Academy 3G, Cuckfield

Free Entry

Sometimes you need a Plan B. Sometimes you need a Plan C, but on this occasion we need not so much a Plan, more a Sou’wester and a game, any game! I’d even lost track of what I was meant to be watching in the first place!

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Locality

28 Sunday Apr 2024

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Saturday 23rd March 2024 ko 15:00

Northern Premier League- Division One West

CLITHEROE 1 (Baker 72)

RUNCORN LINNETS 1 (Molloy 40)

Att 938

Entry £10

Programme £2

It had been a busy few weeks. There’d been Belfast, then a week at home, then the North West Counties Hop, then a week at home, then the Scottish Hop then this, a week off before the South West Peninsula League Hop over Easter. My thought was to stay reasonably local to Oxford, which I did reflect upon sat on the M6 for hours on end!!

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More Than

24 Sunday Mar 2024

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Sunday 3rd March 2024 ko 14:30

North West Counties League Premier Division

CHARNOCK RICHARD 7 (Power 6 Bibby 33 Nickeas 45 57 64 Davies 74p Spinelli 87)

SKELMERSDALE UNITED 1 (Rodrigues 89)

Att 534

Entry £6

Programme £2

I’m sure my regular reader is aware of how my version of groundhoppers’ O.C.D. shows itself, I tend to make a beeline for clubs I regularly see on road signs. Well, that must go double for a motorway service station mustn’t it? Clearly, I’m not the only one who’s thought that, as virtually the first thing I saw as I walked into Mossie Park was a banner with the legend,” Charnock Richard, more than a service station!”

Quite right, and I hope the hop visit helped in that way. Certainly the club’s hosting helped!

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