The 14th Edition

04 Tuesday Jul 2023

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Friday 2nd June 2023 ko 20:00

Division 2 Södra Svealand

RÅGSVEDS IF 0

IFK HANINGE 1 (Ghozzi 60)

Att 139 at Hagsätra IP

Entry 75 sek (approx. £5.45)

The Swedish Hop’s cost of £450 included bed and breakfast for two nights, all transport in Sweden, together with entry fees and programmes for all games.  

When in June 2019 the 13th Swedish Hop finished in the little Skåne village of Holmeja, Robyn and I were engaged, the Swedish Hop had run for 13 consecutive years, and organiser Kim Hedwall, Robyn and I pondered how we’d factor in the 14th edition around our wedding! Obviously, a few things got in the way. Continue reading →

This Is The Modern World

03 Monday Jul 2023

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Saturday 27th May 2023 ko 13:30

International U18 Friendly

ESTUDIANTES LDN 4 (Djalo 9 Karuchok 63 Own Goal 70 Calvo 71)

PHOENIX RISING (USA) 5 (20 25 39 78 80)

Att 74 at Westway Stadium, Kensington & Chelsea

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If you’ve been following this blog closely for the last few years you may have spotted that I’d been hankering after the Westway Stadium. Part of it was all those years either driving or taking the coach along the A40 from Oxford into central London by Shepherds Bush, and part of it was just how unusual a ground it is. Continue reading →

Alternate

28 Wednesday Jun 2023

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Hertfordshire Senior County League, Premier Division 

HINTON 0

CHIPPERFIELD CORINTHIANS 1 (C Chapman 53) 

Att 49 at The Hub, Barnet Lane (grass pitch)

Free Entry

Programme £2

Sometimes everything conspires to attract groundhoppers, and this was a case in point. Firstly with the season all-but-ended there was little competition for games to watch, the ground, or should I say pitch rarely gets used, and then Hinton decided to produce a programme. Yes, I did know I high percentage of the crowd! Continue reading →

Committal

22 Thursday Jun 2023

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Saturday 13th May 2023 ko 15:00

Hampshire Premier League- Senior Division

PAULSGROVE 1 (Boxall 20)

CLANFIELD 0

Att 48

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I must say, I rather like the Hampshire Premier League. Now I’m sure part of it is that it is a Step 7 League that’s easy to get to from Oxford, and that it hasn’t been used as depository for reserve sides with nowhere else to play. But wait a mo’ I did say easy to get to, didn’t I? Continue reading →

Whisper

17 Saturday Jun 2023

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Monday 8th May 2023 ko 15:00

Midland League Division Two

CADBURY ATHLETIC 1 (Craine 66)

KENILWORTH SPORTING 1 (Franklin 12)

Att 140

Entry £5

Programme £1.50

It was Coronation Monday and there were no end of games I could have headed to that would have added to a new tick for me, although most were in the lower divisions of the Midland League. But there are grounds that frankly any football fan ought to visit, one is Cadbury Athletic, and my wife Robyn hadn’t been there. It really was an easy decision, wasn’t it? Continue reading →

Smiley’s People

15 Thursday Jun 2023

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Wednesday 3rd May 2023

Aylesbury & District League: Premier Division

GREAT MISSENDEN 3 (Tripp 65 78 84)

ELMHURST 1 (Giles 42)

Att 51

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Football watching does tend you to draw threads. A week so earlier I’d watched a game at Brill – once the furthest flung outpost of the London Underground. Here I found myself another village with station that used to be on the Metropolitan Line but this time the station is still open; it’s just that the trains these days are normal sized ones!

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The Derby Of Ten

14 Wednesday Jun 2023

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Monday 1st May 2023 ko 14:45

Kent County League Premier Division

TENTERDEN TOWN 2 (Kirby 3 Sharp 31)

Burton sent off 57 (2nd booking)

TEN-EM-BEE 1 (Nelson 7)

Att 41

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From leafy Surrey it didn’t take long to relocate to leafy Kent, and no the difference wasn’t massive! Tenterden lies close to Ashford, and maintains a feeling of gentle affluence. In fact Robyn and I took full advantage, after the game we decamped to the White Lion for a quite superb meal. It seemed churlish not to.  Continue reading →

Walcountian

13 Tuesday Jun 2023

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Monday 1st May 2023 ko 11:00

Surrey County Premier League

AFC WALCOUNTIANS 1 (Davis 65)

STAINES & LAMMAS 0

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I know that I say this a lot, and that is a lot of my games choose me rather than the other way round. This was a case in point, with no end of Kent County League games at 3pm, and this Surrey game at 11:00. I followed quite a few hoppers to the extent that the car park at Old Walcountians felt like a meeting of the clans! Continue reading →

Metroland

10 Saturday Jun 2023

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Wednesday 26th April 2023 ko 18:30

Oxfordshire Senior League Premier Division

ASHTON FOLLY 5 (Laver 5 24 35 65 Benjamin 68)

Baker sent off (foul & abusive)

HALSE UNITED 0

Att 15 at Brill Sports and Social Club

For a small village on the westernmost tip of Buckinghamshire, the village of Brill seems to punch above its weight. Brill used to have a palace as the centre of the Forest of Bernwood, owned by the crown, so the likes of Henry II, King John, and Henry III all stayed here. Charles I used the palace as a garrison during the English Civil War, which is probably why the place was destroyed during the Commonwealth! Continue reading →

Linnets

09 Friday Jun 2023

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Saturday 15th April 2023 ko 15:00

Northern Premier League – Division One West

RUNCORN LINNETS 5 (Birchall 2 Brooke 36p Doyle 37 78 Rooney 89)

RAMSBOTTOM UNITED 0

Att 580

Entry £10

Programme £2

I’d argue there are 4 strands to my footballing life, and I spend a lot of my time trying to keep each of them happy. Firstly there’s Oxford United, I’m a season ticket holder there, then I’m still Chris Berezai’s deputy at GroundhopUK, then there’s my committee work for the North Berkshire League. Then there’s my groundhopping, and this weekend for the first time saw all four strands clash. Continue reading →