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When All The Pieces Fit

10 Sunday Apr 2016

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Monday 28th March 2016 ko 15.00

Gloucestershire County League

FRAMPTON UNITED 0

THORNBURY TOWN 0

Att 59

Entry & Programme £2

Tea 70p

In football, as in life, sometimes you just need to slow down. After 7 games in two-and-a-bit days in the South West Peninsula League, I’d had great plans of a madcap double. But I awoke looked out of the window and decided to take it easy… Continue reading →

Chariots

25 Monday Jan 2016

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Friday 22nd January 2016 ko 19.00

FA U21 Professional Development League 2

FULHAM 1 (Humphrys 24)

WEST HAM UNITED 3 (Parfitt-Williams 38 86 Cullen 74p)

Att 189 at Motspur Park Training Ground

Entry £3

Team Sheet and Programme FREE

There can’t be many clubs who have use of two iconic grounds but Fulham are fortunate to be in that category. While their main ground Craven Cottage should be near the top of any serious attempt to “Do the 92,” their training ground at Motspur Park in New Malden should not be missed either. Continue reading →

Field of Dreams

21 Thursday Jan 2016

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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 →

Mentality

06 Wednesday Jan 2016

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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 →

Poster Boys

30 Wednesday Dec 2015

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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 →

The Statement

14 Wednesday Oct 2015

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Sunday 11th October 2015 ko 15.00

FA Cup 3rd Qualifying Round

F.C. UNITED OF MANCHESTER 1 (Greaves 79)

BUXTON 1 (Burrell 45) Belezika sent off 85 (2nd booking)

Att 2,357

Entry (all areas) £9

Programme £2

When you think about it, it is easy to protest, “I’m against…” or “I’m anti..” but far more difficult to actually do something concrete about it. In time I suspect the great achievement of FC United will be turning all that anger into something far more positive. Continue reading →

Brotherhood

02 Friday Oct 2015

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Sunday 27th September 2015 12.00

4 Liga Bucuresti

A.S.F. FRATIA BUCURESTI 3 (Grigore 81 85 Hoganu 90p)

A.S. TERMO 6 (Oprea 21 Balan 32 Barbu 39 Tache 55 61 79)

Att 29

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It’s not the best start to your footballing day when you ask your taxi driver for “Stadionul Fratia-Vulcan” and despite asking another driver, he has no idea where the place is! With local non-league expert Andrei unavailable we’d taken the Bucharest metro south to Aparatorii Patriei (Defenders of the Motherland!) station and found what we really wanted was the Vulcan factory in Berceni but what threw our driver was that it has been closed for many years! Continue reading →

The Mother Of Invention

30 Wednesday Sep 2015

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Saturday 26th September 2015 ko 12.00

4 Liga Ilfov

ATHLETICO FLOREASCA 4 (Dorlan 20 Trendo 25 Nicolau 57 Brinza 59)

ACS CORBEANA 2 (Timesol 28 Serban 90)

Att 16

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Bottle “Ursus” Beer 5 Lei (c 84p)

“O wonder!
How many godly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in’t.”

William Shakespeare “The Tempest” Act V Scene I

It’s simple enough to get to Stadiunul Athletico Floreasca, just take the Bucharest metro north on the M2 line to Aurel Vlaicu station, a day’s pass on the underground costs 8 lei, about £1.34. From there you cross the road and head south passing the Floreasca Park retail development a modernist vision of concrete, glass and steel before going to through the double gates into the altogether more humble surroundings of the football ground. Continue reading →

Play From Your… Heart

29 Tuesday Sep 2015

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Friday 25th September 2015 ko 17.55

International Club Veterans Friendly

ATHLETICO FLOREASCA 8 (Florea 4 66 70 Parashiv 8 20 38 52 Di Salvatore 30)

TuS BAR KOCHBA NÜRNBERG 0

Att 16 at Centrul Tehnic al Federatiei Romane de Fotbal, Buftea, Romania

Entry FREE

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 “Yes! Yes! Play from your ******* heart!… I am available for children’s parties, by the way.”

 Bill Hicks “Relentless” 1992

My contact in Romania Andrei had alerted me to this highly unusual ground to visit, to the north west of the capital. He’s involved at Bucharest-based Floreasca, and was kind enough to organise travelling companion Sim and I a lift out to Buftea with the visiting team. It would save a lot of time, effort and worry in new country, and all of that looked in jeopardy when our flight was delayed, sat on Luton Airport’s runaway. Continue reading →

Underneath The Arches

24 Monday Aug 2015

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Thursday 20th August 2015 ko 18.30

Pre-Season Friendly

FORDINGBRIDGE TURKS 2 (Tong 83 86)

BURLEY 0

Att 18

Entry FREE

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As a general policy I’ll be attempting this season to visit more of the clubs that follow me on Twitter. Now I’m well aware that will set me up for a few monster drives, with perhaps the Cornishmen of Carharrack being the furthest, but the policy does have one advantage, and this game was the perfect example of it. Continue reading →