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11 Tuesday Feb 2025

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Saturday 8th February 2025 ko 14:00

Somerset County League Division One

STOCKWOOD GREEN 2 (Templeman 21 Thomas 33)

ASHTON & BACKWELL UNITED 1 (Smart 90+3)

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You may recall the Stockwood treble, the triumvirate of Bristol Telephones, Stockwood Wanderers and Cutters Friday whose grounds lie in a triangle on Stockwood Lane in the southern suburbs of Bristol. But there is another Stockwood club, Stockwood Green so how do they fit into the scheme of things?

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Legacy

28 Tuesday Jan 2025

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Saturday 4th January 2025 ko 15:00

Sheffield & Hallamshire League- Premier Division

SHEFFIELD CITY 0

JUBILEE SPORTS 6 (Barnsley 25 Turner 60 Evison 65p Taylor 83 Reet 86 90+6)

Att 31 at Sheffield Olympic Legacy Stadium, Attercliffe

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It is a curiosity that the Olympic Legacy Stadium may well be part of the legacy of the 2012 London Olympics, and is the only such stadium built outwith the host city, but its roots lie with a completely different Olympics.

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Penpole

09 Thursday Jan 2025

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Tuesday 10th December 2024 ko 19:45

Gloucestershire FA Challenge Trophy- 2nd Round

SHIREHAMPTON 0

HALLEN 2 (Thomas-Barker 27 79)

Att 120

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With Robyn my wife being from Bristol I was a little surprised I hadn’t paid Penpole Lane a visit sooner. Shirehampton’s elevation to the Western League for last season has produced the frankly amazing position where they, Avonmouth, Cribbs, Hallen and Bristol Manor Farm are all within 3 miles of Penpole Lane, and all play at Western League level or better! You’ll pass by the alleyway entrance of Avonmouth’s King George V Recreation Ground on the way to Shirehampton, the two grounds are less than a mile apart!

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Peripatetic

02 Thursday Jan 2025

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Saturday 9th November 2024 ko 15:00

Isthmian League Division One South East

SITTINGBOURNE 5 (Cosgrove 34 Sinai 45+1 Stevenson 83 Boachie 89 Kingsford 90+3)

DEAL TOWN 0

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With the organised hop season over you’d have thought the very last place I’d have wanted to find myself was the South East! But then Robyn wanted to tick off Gillingham towards her aim of completing her “92” and Sittingbourne is just that little bit too far away for me to get there midweek after work. Then there’s the which Sittingbourne ground conundrum…

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Hextable

20 Wednesday Nov 2024

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Sunday 6th October 2024 ko 14:30

Southern Counties East League-Premier Division

SUTTON ATHLETIC 2 (Ahmed 89 Fisher 90+2)

TUNBRIDGE WELLS 0

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For those in the know, Sutton Athletic don’t actually play in Sutton at Hone, but rather at nearby Hextable, but even that isn’t completely accurate. Lower Road is a short distance east of the village, itself a few miles north of Swanley, and within hearing of Brands Hatch motor racing circuit. The club moved from the Roaches Recreation Ground in 2011 in order to find a ground they could develop.

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The Transformation

07 Thursday Nov 2024

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Friday 4th October 2024 ko 19:45

Southern Counties East League Premier Division

SNODLAND TOWN 0

RUSTHALL 3 (Barton 5 Clover 60 Bissett 76)

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In GroundhopUK terms October added up to 12 games at 12 grounds in south-eastern England. The games were split over 2 weekends 3 weeks apart between the SCEFL and Southern Combination. In my terms that added up to 11 revisits, so I approached the two events as part organiser, part social event, and part seeing how some of the clubs and their facilities had changed. And nowhere across those twelve games saw more of a transformation than at Snodland’s Potyn’s Field.

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Seaside

18 Friday Oct 2024

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Friday 20th September 2024 ko 19:00

West Wales Premier League

SEASIDE 0

GARDEN VILLAGE 1 (Jewell 56)

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For an organised hop that’d been so successful there was a tinge of regret about this season’s visit to West Wales. That was mainly due to the loss for the August Bank Holiday Welsh Hop; the FAW Trophy made it difficult to organise, and the Gwent League’s inability to supply fixtures- impossible. But if this was to be GroundHopUK’s only visit to Wales this season, there was the overarching feeling that we should make it a good one.

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Forza Titani

03 Thursday Oct 2024

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Thursday 5th September 2024 ko 20:45

UEFA Nations League League D Group 1

SAN MARINO 1 (Sensoli 53)

LIECHTENSTEIN 0

Att 914 at Stadio San Marino, Serravalle

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The roots of Robyn and I being at a game involving Europe’s third smallest country lie in an unlikely place- Stockholm! You may remember our friends Per and Bettan; each year they like to have a week in Rimini so when we decided to have some time away during Robyn’s birthday week, we decided to follow their example!

For those in the know, Rimini is the gateway to the tiny country of San Marino so with us in the area it was straightforward to factor in a San Marino Nations League fixture. I’ll be completely candid at this point; I didn’t pay too much attention as to who they were playing!

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Brackets

25 Wednesday Sep 2024

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Tuesday 20th August 2024 ko 19:45

Midland League Division One

SUTTON UNITED 2 (Gildea 4 33)

PAGET RANGERS 0

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Programme £2

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As the saying goes “What’s in a name?” Well quite a lot of you happen to be Sutton United! For the avoidance of any doubt this is the club based in Sutton Coldfield, not the National League Premier side based in South London. As if to make it worse I’ve seen the club referred to as Sutton United (Birmingham); Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham are two very different places.

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Otherworld

28 Wednesday Aug 2024

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Saturday 27th July 2024 ko 11:00

United Counties League- Premier North

SHIREBROOK TOWN 1 (Costa 62)

NEWARK & SHERWOOD UNITED 1 (Monteiro 50og)

L White penalty saved 69

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I must say I enjoyed my close season far more than I expected, the chance to recharge my groundhopping batteries was appreciated, even the pre-season friendlies were often an exercise in enjoying a day out, rather than with any kind of aim. Robyn and I were ready to return to GroundhopUK duty for the UCL Hop but then we hit a snag….

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