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
12 Monday Oct 2015
Saturday 10th October 2015
Bedfordshire County League Hop
10.30 Bedfordshire County League Premier Division
SHARNBROOK 4 (King 17 Mulvihill 48 52 Strange 69)
PAVENHAM 4 (Payne 6 11 Harding 47 Netherway 59)
Att 125
13.45 Bedfordshire County League Premier Division
RENHOLD UNITED 2 (Reed 3 Allison 6)
SANDY 0
Att 119
16.30 Bedfordshire County League Premier Division
FLITWICK TOWN 3 (Banfield 5 Doriatito 17 Lewis 82)
EASTCOTTS 0
Att 151
Free entry to all games
Programmes £2 each
Badges £3 each
When I see the Bedfordshire officials to some extent I see my own reflection. I’ve got so engrained in the world of the North Berkshire League it’s got to the point where I can look at a side in the Bedfordshire League and understand them, the two leagues are that similar in how they operate. Continue reading
09 Friday Oct 2015
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Shaw Lane Aquaforce, Sheffield and Hallamshire Senior Cup, Shelley FC, Storthes Hall, West Yorkshire League
Wednesday 7th October 2015 ko 19.45
Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup 2nd Round
SHELLEY FC 0
SHAW LANE AQUAFORCE 4 (Priestley 43 66 83 Thornton 55)
Att 78
Entry & Programme £3
Coffee £1.20
It has to be said Storthes Hall in Kirkburton is an unusual place to watch a game. The manor house used to be mental hospital with a quite dreadful reputation, and lay derelict until bought and converted into student accommodation by the University of Huddersfield. It’s the kind of place where if you’re the kind of patron who likes to get to the ground 10 seconds before kickoff you shouldn’t try it here! Continue reading
08 Thursday Oct 2015
Posted in O
Tuesday 6th October 2015 ko 19.45
Football League Trophy Southern Section, 2nd Round
OXFORD UNITED 2 (Roofe 41 54)
swindon town 0 Turnbull sent off (violent conduct) 31
Att 9,013 (1,179 away)
Entry £15
Programme £3
It was 6.30 and there I was stood sheltering under the canopy over turnstile 1 waiting for Alan to open up. I watched the other Oxford fans waiting alongside me, and we all had the same expression on our faces. We were nervous, and despite there being 50 or so stood there it was quiet, I could even hear Joey Beauchamp’s footsteps as he walked over to the Quad Bar hospitality entrance. Being an Oxford United legend affords you that luxury. Continue reading
05 Monday Oct 2015
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Fairfield Recreation Ground, Ferring, Hurstpierpoint, Southern Combination, Sussex County League
Saturday 3rd October 2015 ko 15.00
Southern Combination Division Two
HURSTPIERPOINT 1 (Ojo 44)
FERRING 1 (Godfrey 75og)
Att 9
Entry FREE
Programme £1
As far as I’m concerned Hurstpierpoint is the village with the long name whose sign you see on the A23 north of Brighton as you pass Hickstead Show Jumping Ground. The name of the village os a classic case of combining the Old English word for wood “Hurst” with the surname of the family that were lords of the manor here. Other than that the village is known for Hurstpierpoint College whose must famous alumnus is former Master of College Sabine Baring-Gould who wrote the hymn “Onward Christian Soldiers.”
04 Sunday Oct 2015
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Arena Nationala, Bucharest, Bucuresti, George Becali, Ghencea, Gigi, Liga 1, Romania, Steaua, Voluntari
Sunday 27th September 2015 ko 21.00
Liga I
STEAUA BUCURESTI 3 (Hamroun 8 Chipcui 44 Stanciu 66p)
FC VOLUNTARI 1 (Goosens 69p)
Att 3,362
Entry (VIP 1) 100 lei (c£16.72) cheapest ticket 12 lei
No Programme
League magazine- FREE
Our taxi driver back to the airport summed the position up well,
“I’m a fan,” he said, “But I’m not watching while that man’s in charge.”
That explained why there was less than 3,500 in the frankly palatial surroundings of the Arena Nationala, in Bucharest, and when the stadium holds 55,634 the place felt empty even down to only one ticket booth being open. But how it ended up this way is quite a story. Continue reading
02 Friday Oct 2015
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Bucharest, București 041838, Bucuresti, Fratia, Romania, Stadionul, Strada Dumitru Brumărescu, Termo, Vulcan
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
Entry FREE
No Programme
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
01 Thursday Oct 2015
Posted in E
Saturday 26th September 2015 ko 17.00
4 Liga Bucuresti
CS ELECTRICA 5 (Dumimica 24 64 Gata 53 86 90)
VK SOCCER 0 M. Constantin sent off (2nd booking) 75
Att 37
We travelled by metro south to Piata Sudului and from there should have caught a bus to the Stadionul Rocar. The trouble was that in the mad rush the day before to get to Buftea we’d neglected to buy passes for Bucharest’s bus, trolley, and tram network. The irony of that omission was yet to be revealed to us though… Continue reading
30 Wednesday Sep 2015
Posted in F
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
Entry FREE
No Programme
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
29 Tuesday Sep 2015
Posted in F
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
No Programme
“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
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