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Robin

29 Wednesday Jul 2026

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Saturday 30th May 2026 ko 14:00

West Wales Tier 5 Playoffs Game 3

WAUNARLWYDD GALAXY 2 (Pritchard 71 89)

Fowler sent off 37 (serious foul play)

GLYNNEATH TOWN 0

Att 348

Entry, Programme & Raffle ticket £3

The season was in its last knockings, but non league in Wales does tend to produce some interesting play-offs. The issue has long been the same, there are more league winners than there are places in the leagues above. Who could forget the playoffs to get into the South Wales Alliance ?

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The Drawbridge

21 Tuesday Jul 2026

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Monday 4th May 2026 ko 15:00

Midland League Division 2

WAKE GREEN AMATEUR 1 (Kelly 56)

Kelly penalty saved 29

NORTHFIELD TOWN 6 (Halpin 8 32 73 Ward 31 Forbes 54 Parker 84og)

Att 71

Entry £5

I know why I found myself in Solihull’s environs- local football at the lower divisions is a lot of fun and there”s plenty of it. So much so that I’ve been heading to this part of the world for the best part of twenty years, and I’m still turning up interesting grounds, Wake Green being a case in point.

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Responsibility

22 Monday Jun 2026

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Thursday 2nd April 2026 ko 19:30

Northern League Division One

WEST AUCKLAND TOWN 4 (Robinson 23 63 Steel 56 O’Gorman 87)

THORNABY 0

Att 508

Entry £7

Programme £2

I think just about everyone enjoyed the previous 2 Easters with Phil Hiscox in the South West Peninsula League, but in that time we at GroundhopUK had been approached by the Northern League. If anyone didn’t know the concept of the organised groundhop was invented by Mike Amos and the Northern League in 1992, and the league ran a series of successful events finishing in 1996, when the league ran out of clubs to visit.

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

29 Sunday Mar 2026

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Saturday 27th December 2025 ko 14:00

Somerset County League

WATCHET TOWN 0

STAPLEGROVE 2 (Hibbert 86 Bidgeway 90+6)

Att 65

Free Entry

Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed

The light-house top I see?

Is this the hill? is this the kirk?

Is this mine own countree?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1797)

As is normal for Robyn and I, we split our time over Christmas between family in Oxford then family in Bristol, so that those days between Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve tend to be spent in Knowle West. Or putting it another way, I do tend to see quite a lot of the Somerset County League at this time of year, and Watchet Town had been on my to-do list for quite a while.

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Yellow Brick Road

23 Monday Feb 2026

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Friday 7th November 2025 ko 20:00

EFL Championship

WATFORD 1 (Bola 6)

BRISTOL CITY 1 (Twine 29)

Att 19,574

Entry £30

No Programme

Parking £12

It has to be said there is absolutely no possibility of acting on impulse when you’re watching Championship football. Tickets have to be bought in advance, and since they were for the away end, and Robyn and I don’t live in Bristol we had to discover where to collect our tickets and once there, even to confirm whether the booth in fact, actually had our tickets. Then you need to research where to park- we used the official parking at Watford Grammar School for Girls for £12 and that’s before you think about the M25 at rush hour…

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Sussex By The Sea

12 Thursday Feb 2026

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Saturday 1st November 2025 ko 10:45

Southern Combination Premier Division

AFC VARNDEANIANS 1 (Nandhra 77)

Durand sent off 36 (2nd Booking)

PEACEHAVEN & TELESCOMBE 4 (Wiltshire 34 Tighe 41 Downey-Powell 58 Agihotra 62)

Att 223 at Withdean Stadium, Brighton

Entry & Programme £8

If you take the groundhopping mantra “Everywhere once” literally, I’d have swerved the Withdean Stadium. I visited back in 2001 when Brighton & Hove Albion used here as a lifeboat between the Goldstone Ground, the Priestfield, and the Amex. I had to pretend to be a Darlington fan to get a ticket; all the home areas were sold out, and I perched on a bank of green temporary seats while Brighton won what’s now called League 2. How times change….

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The Aerodrome

28 Wednesday Jan 2026

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Tuesday 28th October 2025 ko 19:45

South West Peninsula League Premier East

MIDDLEZOY ROVERS 3 (Gilbert 40 Scott 48 Mead 62)

CULLOMPTON RANGERS 2 (Down 35 Corrick 38)

Att 167

Entry £6

Programme £1.50

Sometimes things work out in your favour. Work took me to Cornwall for the day so a trip to Westonzoyland on my way home made sense, and no I didn’t ever foresee heading to Bridgwater on the M5 northbound to see a Peninsula League game!

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Alexander

25 Sunday Jan 2026

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Wednesday 22nd October 2025 ko 19:45

Women’s National League – Championship North

WEST BROMWICH ALBION 0

BURNLEY 1 (Ravening 11p)

Att 95 at Alexander Stadium, Perry Barr

Entry £6

Programme £2

It was Swedish Groundhop organiser Kim Hedwall’s last evening with us, and I was on the lookout for something a little different. Now if you’ve ever driven north along the M6 just north of Villa Park and Spaghetti Junction, in recent years I’ve little doubt you’ve spotted the huge floodlights on the left.

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Wild West End

28 Sunday Dec 2025

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Sunday 13th September 2025

11:00 West Wales Premier League

GARDEN VILLAGE 1 (Arnold 61)

CK SWISS VALLEY 1 (James 84)

Caul sent off (2nd booking) 87

Att 136

14:30 (but brought forward to 14:15)

West Wales Premier League

WEST END 1 (Griffiths 36)

Brain sent off 59 (dangerous play)

PENLAN 4 (Lorey 17 Jenkins 75p Otten 90 T Jenkins 90+4)

Charles sent off 59 (dangerous play)

Att 84

Entry & Programme at each game £5

It was (for now) the final day of the West Wales Premier League Hop- but we knew we had a problem, or more accurately two. The first issue was that we at GroundhopUK knew that both Garden Village and West End had recent history in the Welsh League, and given the crowd we’d attracted on the Saturday there was a fair chance that many of them would have visited the Sunday selection before and so headed for home.

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Bird Watching

06 Thursday Nov 2025

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Friday 22nd August 2025 ko 18:45

West Lancashire League Premier Division

BLACKPOOL WREN ROVERS 2 (King 58 68)

POULTON 1 (Hallan 55)

Scammell sent off (serious foul play) 72

Att 388

Entry £3

Programme £2

For groundhoppers of a certain age August Bank Holiday always added up to multiple games in Wales. The Welsh Hop lasted from 2002 to 2022 and we all missed the epic events they always were. Any replacement had to be good, and we even ran events without anything on August Bank Holiday for two years. The irony is that you could say the solution to it was in house…

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