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Leisure Pursuits

12 Friday Dec 2025

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Friday 12th September 2025 ko 19:15

West Wales Premier League

ROCKSPUR FORDS 3 (Morrell 5 Davies 45 Rees 51)

Miller sent off 53 (2nd Booking)

CWMAMMAN UNITED 0

Att 135 at Penyrheol Leisure Centre, Gorseinon, Swansea

Entry £3

Programme £2

If the West Lancs Hop was an introduction, then the West Wales was a farewell- at least for now. There was nothing sinster about that fact, the problem was that we’d run out of clubs to visit!

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The Rockets

26 Friday Sep 2025

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Saturday 19th July 2025 ko 15:00

Friendly

RAYLEIGH TOWN 2 (Acheampong 44 Philbrick 70)

missed penalty 10

FRENFORD 1 (13)

Att 58 at Rayleigh Sports & Social Club, London Road

Free Entry

To a groundhopper, one benefit of pre-season is that clubs who groundshare during the regular season tend to play “at home”. You may recall me visiting Benfleet well before they got Woodside up to Step 6 standards and you hope Rayleigh can do the same for their London Road home.

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Rammy

04 Tuesday Mar 2025

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Friday 28th February 2025 ko 19:45

North West Counties League Premier Division

RAMSBOTTOM UNITED 2 (Whyte 48 Hoyle 56)

FC ST HELENS 3 (Barker 59 Spiers 74 90+1)

Att 551

Entry £9

Programme £2

So back on GroundhopUK duty and despite this being, I believe, the only hop game ever to have taken place in February I was comfortable with what we were doing, and although noone mentioned it, the weather forecast looked kind.

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Grotto

02 Monday Dec 2024

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Friday 25th October 2024 ko 19:30

Southern Combination Premier Division

ROFFEY 3 (Chedzey 20 Kyle 40 J Pearse 52)

AFC VARNDEANIANS 1 (Bukleb 19p)

Att 307

Entry £8

Programme £2

On reflection there aren’t many worse places to be jaded at than in the middle of a traffic jam on the M25 on a Friday night. I knew why I was; we’d come off the back of a Kent Hop 3 weeks earlier that had seen catering that with the exception of Sutton Athletic had failed to inspire. I’d spent most of that weekend metaphorically swerving burgers! Then there was the Sussex Hop to consider; I’d worried that at GroundhopUK we were promoting two hops in October at both a similar level, and part of the UK.

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The Fugitives

21 Thursday Nov 2024

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Saturday 12th October 2024 ko 14:00

Gwent Premier League, Premier Division

ROGERSTONE AFC 4 (Smith 30 56 Porter 59 Goodfellow 82p)

LUCAS CWMBRAN 0

Att 102 at Newport Fugitives Athletic Club

Entry & Programe £3

On occasion I’ve opined that I don’t pick my games they pick me; this was a classic example. After the glut of games that was the Kent Hop all I knew was that the last thing I wanted to watch was something English and at Steps 5 or 6. So when Rogerstone tweeted that they were opening their new ground, my mind was charmingly made up for me!

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Donna

15 Tuesday Oct 2024

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Saturday 7th September 2024 ko 20:45

Serie C Girone (Group) B

RIMINI FC 0

DELFINO PESCARA 1 (Ferraris 85)

Att 3,981 (2,005 season tickets, 1,976 match tickets) at Stadio Romeo Neri

Entry €22

Programme/ Team sheet online only

We’d flown in to Rimini-San Marino airport the previous Wednesday evening and together with the other passengers on the flight were faced with something unusual. There was absolutely no onward transport, the buses had finished for the day, and there wasn’t a taxi to be seen. I found the number of a local taxi firm and eventually a stream of cabs arrived to take the flight to various hotels in the Rimini, Riccione, and Cattolica area. We finally got to our hotel, dumped our bags and had just enough time in the end to grab a Piadina, it’s a good job restaurants in Italy tend to close late!

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The Cherry Tree

24 Tuesday Sep 2024

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Saturday 17th August 2024 ko 15:00

Hellenic League Division One

REDDITCH BOROUGH 0

STONEHOUSE TOWN 0

Keveren sent off 49 (2nd booking)

Att 45

Entry £5

Programme £3

When Redditch Borough won last season’s Midland League Division Two and successfully applied for Step 6 status, I wonder whether they imagined that would mean membership of the Hellenic League. There can’t be too many clubs as north as this or further that have played in the Hellenic or are there?

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The Late Late Breakfast Bap

15 Sunday Sep 2024

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Sunday 28th July 2024 ko 15:30

United Counties League-Premier Division South

RUGBY BOROUGH 5 (McGahey 20 54 Sawyer 24 67 Wilson 58)

LEICESTER NIRVANA 1 (Brown 34)

Att 401

Entry £7

Programme £2

If the point of groundhopping is to visit as many football grounds as possible, then if you’re going to revisit anywhere then let it be somewhere that has changed beyond recognition. While my first visit to Kilsby Lane was back in 2011 when Rugby Borough were Rugby Town Juniors. As an aside it was also the second article I wrote for this site. How times change.. the pitch was grass back then!

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Train Time

02 Monday Sep 2024

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Saturday 27th July 2024 ko 14:15

United Counties League Division One

RETFORD 2 (Goddard 10 Bacon 88)

GEDLING MINERS WELFARE 0

Att 385

Entry £5

Programme £2

Teamsheet 50p

It had only been 2 years since I’d visited The Rail and if I watched non league football purely to tick off grounds, this would have been the game I’d have anticipated the least. Yet, for me this was the visit I looked forward to the most…..

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The Cauldron

27 Thursday Jun 2024

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Saturday 11th May 2024 ko 13:00

Thames Valley Premier League – Premier Division

READING YMCA 2 (Reynolds 38 Ibbotson 50)

Burton sent off 88 (2nd booking)

AFC WINKFIELD 2 (Long 19 Forder 88)

Att c30 at The Cauldron, Padworth

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The club do sporadically issue programmes.

Once again it was a question of finding something to pair up with a North Berkshire cup final, and once again the Thames Valley Premier supplied the goods- this was the first part of a double-header with YMCA’s reserves to follow. There was only one small catch though.

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