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

Entry €12

Programme €2

Teamsheet FREE

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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The Gap

02 Wednesday Oct 2024

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Saturday 26th August 2024 ko 14:30

Cymru North

GUILSFIELD UNITED 3 (Haycock 17 59 Matthews 69)

RUTHIN TOWN 1 (Owen 69p)

Att 160

Entry £7

Programme £1

Back in the days when the Welsh Hop visited the Mid-Wales League we visited this part of the world a lot. The unscientific way of explaining the geography is to say flop over the border at Welshpool, then head towards the mountains. Over three years we visited a series of quite wonderful grounds, but why did Guilsfield somehow evade us?

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Foresters

26 Thursday Sep 2024

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Saturday 24th August 2024 ko 15:00

Gloucestershire County League

BROADWELL AMATEURS 1 (Locke 90+4p)

BROMLEY HEATH UNITED 0

Att 65

Entry & Programme £2.50

Being married to a Bristol girl you’d have thought I’d have finished the Gloucestershire County League years ago, and if they’d hadn’t turned down an approach from GroundhopUK around 20 years ago I’d have completed it well before Robyn and I had ever met. Perhaps it’s a sign of the strength of the league that they’re managed to remove the reserve sides (who kyboshed the groundhop plan) and keep up the refreshing of its membership over the years.

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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

Att 132

Entry £6

Programme £2

Teamsheet FREE

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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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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Show Jumping

23 Monday Sep 2024

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Tuesday 13th August 2024 ko 19:45

Hellenic League Premier Division

HARTPURY UNIVERSITY 7 (Kone 15 Osborn 24 Rusg 28 McGregor 39og Jenkins 54 Manning 90 90+2)

LYDNEY TOWN 0

Att 60

Entry £8

Teamsheet FREE

It seemed a lot less than 3 years since I watched Hartpury University midway through their demolition of the Herefordshire League despite the club being based in Gloucestershire! It seemed to me even then the only limiting factor on the club was the pitch near the entrance to the sports facilties they were using. It was certainly good enough for the league they were in, barely for the lower division of the Hellenic, but the Premier? Not a chance?

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Crawdaddy

18 Wednesday Sep 2024

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Saturday 10th August 2024

Ko 12:30 Championship

OXFORD UNITED 2 (Harris 28 Brannagan 58)

NORWICH CITY 0

Att 11,333 (1,476 away)

Entry (seat in South Stand Upper Premium) £35

Programme £4

17:30 League 1

BRISTOL ROVERS 1 (Bilongo 90+1)

NORTHAMPTON TOWN 0

Att 8,529 (586 away)

Entry (Home covered terrace) £20

Monthly magazine £5.99

As the coach left Wembley after Oxford United’s play-off final win, I took a deep breath. It was less a feeling of celebration, that was yet to come back at the pub, more a feeling of “Now what?” I hadn’t expected promotion, but when it happened I began to look at the consequences.

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Parkhouse

16 Monday Sep 2024

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Saturday 3rd August 2024 ko 15:00

United Counties League Division One

CLAY CROSS TOWN 5 (Macaskill 26 75 Clegg 46 54 63)

Clegg missed penalty 12

CLIFTON ALL WHITES 1 (Jasper 89)

Att 161

Entry £6

Programme £2

I’m a contrary soul, so you would have thought after a weekend watching 5 games in the United Counties League, the very last place you’d expect me to be at is another UCL ground. But there were some extenuating circumstances…

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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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Resurrection

13 Friday Sep 2024

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Sunday 28th July 2024 ko 12:00

United Counties League Division One

COALVILLE TOWN 0

SOUTHWELL CITY 1 (Eckers 15)

Att 792

Entry £7

Programme £2

When we at GroundhopUK started to put together this edition of the UCL Hop the thought of going to Owen Street hadn’t crossed our minds. Coalville were nicely esconced in the Southern League Premier Central, but then came the shocking news that they wrere resigning, citing financial difficulties. They were quickly accepted by the United Counties League which immediately created an unusual situation for us.

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