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15 Friday Dec 2023

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Saturday 2nd December 2023 ko 14:00

Central & North Norfolk League Division 3

WEST ROW GUNNERS 6 (Tuffs 3 73 Andrade 61 81 88 Tamayo 90)

FC VIKING 1 (Basson 78)

Att 12 at Mildenhall Hub

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Sometimes you stand at a game and wonder how on earth you ended up there. This was an unusual one though, even by my standards! The key to it was that Robyn and I had been invited to a birthday celebration at AFC Sudbury’s clubhouse in the evening. We’d be staying over so needed time to get to our accommodation, get ready and get to the venue. And before you ask, no Sudbury weren’t at home!

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Stockwood the Third

12 Tuesday Dec 2023

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Saturday 25th November 2023 ko 14:00

Somerset County League Division 2

CUTTERS FRIDAY 1 (Thorn 90+6)

WELTON ROVERS RESERVES 1 (Benjamin 82)

Att 14

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You’ve probably spotted the running theme. With family in Bristol, I tend to tick off another ground in the area whenever I’m visiting. And that is how I became interested in what you could call the Stockwood treble. It evokes the now impossible Lenton Lane treble, in Nottingham of Bilborough Pelican, Dunkirk and Greenwood Meadows. Sadly, both Meadows and Pelican are defunct, but there’s now the Stockwood treble for groundhoppers to attack.

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(Kent)

11 Monday Dec 2023

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Saturday 18th November 2023 ko 15:00

Isthmian League Division One South-East

ASHFORD UNITED 3 (Draycott 16 Brand 41 Carney 90+4)

SHEPPEY UNITED 2 (Willis 4 Bessey-Saldana 14)

Att 478

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Programme £2

We’d reached the part of the season where the weather makes sure you either pick a game that’s on 3G or have a whole slew of backup plans. Added to that I had two thoughts on the back of my mind. The first was that I wanted something with seating and cover, Robyn’s ankle was still causing her pain, and there was the vexed question of the Southern Counties East. I took the view to cash in a 3G insurance policy.

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Almost

05 Tuesday Dec 2023

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Saturday 11th November 2023 ko 14:00

Shropshire County League Premier Division

ST MARTINS 1 (Smart 28og)

DAWLEY TOWN 9 (Sabar 17 Knowles 48 67 81p 88 90 Watkins 65 Smart 67 McLeod 75)

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Programme £2

After being involved in 3 organised groundhops in 5 weeks, I wanted to avoid anything quite so organised for a while. If you have asked me on the way back from Billingshurst what I fancied visiting next I’d have probably said something low-key with a view. I’ll leave you, dear reader to work out whether St Martins added up to that choice!

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Cloudbusting

04 Monday Dec 2023

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Sunday 29th October 2023 ko 14:45

Southern Combination Division One

BILLINGSHURST 2 (Humphries 55 McAlpine 73)

EAST PRESTON 2 (O’Driscoll 27 Kusaka 80)

Marney penalty saved 90

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Robyn and I spent the entire journey from Wick to Billingshurst fully expecting a phone call to confirm that the game was off. While the rain had relented for the time being the deluge that had cause the abandonment at Wick, must have had the same impact at Billingshurst hadn’t it?

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Crabby

29 Wednesday Nov 2023

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Sunday 29th October 2023 ko 11:00

Southern Combination Division One

WICK 2 (Hack 31 Crouch 33)

OAKWOOD 3 (Agymane 11 Etherington 48 Ramen 62)

Abandoned 66 minutes due to a waterlogged pitch

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We’d sat under Storm Babet overnight and I was happy enough to see our hotel in one piece, let alone any other consideration. There’d even been a tornado in Littlehampton with a house near Wick losing it’s roof. Robyn and I went down to breakfast failing to see how we’d see any football that day. In fact the only possible silver lining was that at least it had stopped raining….

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The Brother

29 Wednesday Nov 2023

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Saturday 28th October 2023 ko 17:45

Southern Combination Division One

SELSEY 2 (Henton 54 Morey 72)

ROFFEY 2 (Fernades 16 Joseph 20)

Fender sent off (violent conduct 50)

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The fact that it wasn’t raining between leaving Bosham and arrival at Selsey felt like a window of opportunity. We’d passed by the oddity that is Infinity at Sidlesham with many of the coach party craning to catch a glimpse of the Memorial Ground. It’s always the same whenever we pass by a ground….

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Influencers

24 Friday Nov 2023

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Saturday 28th October 2023 ko 14:15

Southern Combination – Division Two

BOSHAM 1 (Harris 32)

JARVIS BROOK 1 (Edmunds 41)

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We’d watched the Shoreham game in the midst of a deluge, and the downpour carried on all night. It was therefore of no surprise that at breakfast the news had come through that our first game at Pagham had been lost. And for the record saying the pitch was waterlogged doesn’t do the conditions justice. The place was flooded, as were many of the approach roads.

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Mussel Bound

22 Wednesday Nov 2023

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Friday 27th October 2023 ko 19:45

Southern Combination Premier Division

SHOREHAM 0

Tims sent off 50 (2nd booking)

CROWBOROUGH ATHLETIC 4 (Murraine 59 Killick 62 Pearson 72 83p)

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Programme £2

I must admit an organised groundhop for the Southern Combination came as a surprise to me. My regular reader might remember that we’d wanted a southern-based hop for a while. That started in 2015 with my unsuccessful attempt to get the Wessex League on board but out of the ashes of that project two things happened. The first was that late Mark Edmonds contacted us at GroundhopUK to organise a hop for the Western League, and around that time I contacted the Southern Combination.

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Tell Sid

21 Tuesday Nov 2023

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Tuesday 24th October ko 19:45

Hampshire Premier League Senior Division

INFINITY 1 (Powell 15)

BISHOPS WALTHAM DYNAMOS 2 (Riddell 11 Dawson 74)

Att 34 at Sidlesham Memorial Recreation Ground

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When GroundhopUK’s Chris Berezai phoned me to say that the Southern Combination Hop was in part, going to be based in around the Selsey Peninsula I looked at a map and wondered why I’d never got around to visiting Sidlesham FC? With the line-up we had I knew the following weekend’s event would be passing by the Memorial Ground, and I knew not having seen a game there would irk me.

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