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Khalsa

05 Sunday Jul 2015

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Saturday 4th July 2015

Khalsa Football Federation Shaheedi Football Tournament

9.00am Division Two First Round – Pitch 5

GURU RAVIDAS 1 (7)

SMETHWICK RAIDERS 2 (62 74)

Att 10

10.45 Division One First Round – Pitch 4

NUNEATON FC 2 (51 54)

GNP SPORTS COVENTRY 5 (6p 13 22 43 90)

Att 11

12.30 Premier Division First Round – Pitch 2

GNG LEICESTER 4 (42 52 57 85)

SINGH BROTHERS DERBY 4 (23 49 64 90p)

No extra time Leicester won 4-3 on penalties

Att 53

14.30 Division Two Second Round – Pitch 1

SIKH HUNTERS RESERVES 2 (3 33)

B.N.J.S. 3 (5 25 49)

Att 18

16.30 Division One Second Round – Pitch 7

SHERE PUNJAB WOLVES 0

SINGH SABHA BARKING 4 (23 51 56 73)

Att 14

At Sinfin Moor Park, Sinfin Lane, Derby

Entry FREE

Programme FREE

Vegetable Curry and Chapatti FREE

The Khalsa Football Federation exists as means of uniting Britain’s Sikh community through football, and its flagship event is a series of two-day football tournaments hosted in areas where there is a significant Sikh community. This was the 3rd of 5 tournaments, the next being in Kingswinford on 18th and 19th July. More information is on the KFF’s website.

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Shoot Out

16 Thursday Apr 2015

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Saturday 11th April 2015 ko 14.30

North Berkshire League Division One

KINTBURY RANGERS 4 (Allsop 8 11 30 Thorp 30)

BERINSFIELD 5 (Ingram 18p 65p Palmer 41 D Murphy 59 Rawlings 84)

Att 85

Entry FREE

No Programme

With my presence requested at the North Berkshire League Cup Final at Milton United later, my choice of afternoon games was rather limited. But serendipity can be wonderful thing, as I received word from Berinsfield assistant manager Nathan Frost that this game was going to be a shoot-out for the title. Yes I’d visited the ground as part of the Hellenic Hop in 2005 but this game had the potential to be a cracker. But great games on paper seldom turn to be classics do they? Continue reading →

People in Glasshouses

07 Sunday Sep 2014

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Tuesday 2nd September 2014 ko 18.00

Coventry Alliance Premier Division

KENILWORTH WARDENS 4 (Ritchie 6 Powell 16 37 Piwotazczyk 40)

JAGUAR DAIMLER 2 (Welland 61 90)

Att 24

Entry FREE

Programme NO

One welcome change for this season is that the Coventry Alliance now have a web presence! The league, a feeder to the Midland League was path less trodden for many hoppers as the only way you could find out fixtures other than locally was via the Football Traveller and that couldn’t help with those pesky late postponements! Continue reading →

Diplomacy

04 Thursday Sep 2014

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Monday 25th August 2014 ko 17.15

Welsh Alliance Division One

KINMEL BAY 2 (Luffman 32 Woods 48)

GLAN CONWY 2 (Orme 8 Fountain 18)

Att 221

Entry £5

Programme £1

Badge £3

So where you there? What did you see? What do you think? There’s a quite a story behind what happened, maybe you’ve heard some of it, maybe most of it even, but where this heads in the future is anyone’s guess. Continue reading →

Old Dalby

17 Thursday Apr 2014

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Saturday 12th April 2014 ko 15.40

Notts Senior League Senior Division

KEYWORTH UNITED 3 (Clarke 4 51 Crawley 35)

SANDHURST 2 (Clarke 8 Bradford 45) Abbott sent off (2nd booking 37)

Att 372

Entry £3

Programme £1

Teamsheet 20p

Tea £1

Other than being the town where shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Ed Balls was brought up, the pretty Nottinghamshire town is also where the British Geological Survey is based. I’m not sure whether their seismographs recorded the best part of 400 groundhoppers heading for the local football team, but Platt Lane was certainly busy! Even a Panda Car crawled along taking a disbelieving look at proceedings; I wish the club has tried to sell those inside a programme!

The ground is perfect for an ambitious county league team, with its spacious clubhouse, railed off pitch and recently installed floodlights. Should the club be successful and want promotion, there is certainly the potential here to build an impressive ground.

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Wherever Life Takes You

28 Friday Mar 2014

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A few days ago I was asked to write a piece for the United Counties League Facebook page. Given that we’re organising a groundhop for them in August I thought I’m delve a little into groundhopping culture. I  occasionally get asked what’s the most far-flung and unusual ground I’ve ever visited and I’ve got a good tale to tell on that… This isn’t my usual offering but I hope you enjoy it.

 

We took the groundhop to West Wales a few weeks ago, for 5 games in the Ceredigion League. We at GroundhopUK were really happy with how it went, attendances were 20% up on 2013, and the clubs did a marvellous job, making a tidy sum on varied catering, and newsy, interesting programmes.

But I’m not going to talk about that, you’ll all see how that’s done thing coming August, this is a tale from one of my more far-flung travels.

The first game on Sunday was at Bargod Rangers, in the pretty village of Drefach Velindre, near Newcastle Emlyn, and I got volunteered to speak to the local press. The cub reporter asked me what my most bizarre ground visited is, and I told them it was Zweigen Kanazawa in the Japanese 3rd Division.

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Encroachment

30 Monday Dec 2013

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Saturday 28th December 2013 ko 13.30

Scottish Junior FA West Region, West of Scotland Superleague, Premier Division

KIRKINTILLOCH ROB ROY 2 (McGeough 71 Sawyers 90)

CUMNOCK JUNIORS 1 (Maguire 26)

Att 219 (head count)

Entry £5

No Programme (the club normally issue, but editor away on holiday)

Bundle of old issues-complementary

Club bar scarf- complimentary

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The Sunday Scene

17 Sunday Nov 2013

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Sunday 10th November 2013 ko 11.00

BLSZ (Budapest League) II Osztály

KŐBÁNYAI IFUSAGI SE 10 (Nagy 23 44 70 Galántai 34 Helmes 37 52 64 78 Lovász 68 Zeis 89)

ÚJUBDA KFT II 0

Att 33

Entry FREE

No Programme

It has to be said that an 11am kick-off on a Sunday is positively gentle! After the metro ride to Népliget and number 1 tram to MTK, Andy and I headed south-east on the number 37 tram to district 10, or Kőbánya.

Kőbánya, or Quarry if literally translated, started its existence as a centre for limestone mining and many of the beautiful buildings to be seen in the capital are built from materials extracted here. Later the area became known for its claypits, the clay being good for bricks, and later still for winemaking. During the Communist era brewing started up in Kőbánya and the Kőbányai Világos, a light beer became extremely popular throughout Hungary. Continue reading →

Threesome

08 Sunday Sep 2013

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Tuesday 3rd September 2013 ko 18.15

North Leicestershire League Premier Division

KEGWORTH IMPERIAL 0

GREENHILL Y.C. 4 (Morris 3 Mason 49 Nelson 52 70)

Att 49

Entry FREE

Nothing for sale

Sometimes I can sit there with a copy of the Football Traveller and there isn’t a fixture that grabs me. Its daft, a weekly magazine with around a thousand fixtures in, a case perhaps of Bruce Springsteen’s “57 channels and nothing on..”  In the end Newhall United secretary Dan Bishop suggested this one, after I asked for something low level. Dan never, ever lets you down….. Continue reading →

The Red-Wud Kilburnie Blastie

22 Monday Jul 2013

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Sunday 21st July 2013 ko 13.00

James Glen Memorial Trophy 3rd Place Play-Off

RUTHERGLEN GLENCAIRN 4 (Terry 10og McAlpine 25 Sullivan 37 Mackay 85)

ASHFIELD 3 (Flannery 32 Marshall 41 Barclay 66)

Att 107

At Valeside Park, Kilbirnie (Kilbirnie Ladeside JFC)

Entry £5 (but see below!)

No Programme

Badge £3

Raffle £1

Football Card £1

Kilbirnie is a small town of around 7,000 inhabitants situated in North Ayrshire around 20 miles south-west of Glasgow. The area was built up around the flax and weaving industries before iron and steelmaking took over in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Glengarnock Steel Works opened its blast furnaces around 1841 which caused a massive influx of people seeking work. Initially these works were owned by Merry & Cunninghame before being taken over by David Colville & Sons and eventually were Continue reading →