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06 Sunday Jul 2025

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Monday 21st April 2025 ko 15:00

EFL Championship

CARDIFF CITY 1 (Salech 56)

OXFORD UNITED 1 (Brannagan 79)

Att 23,407 (3,095 away)

Entry £27

Programme £3.50

There really wasn’t a more appropriate game for Robyn and I. After the Peninsula Hop we’d broken the journey back to Oxford seeing family in Bristol, so hopping over the border to Cardiff for Robyn to tick off the Cardiff City Stadium and me to watch Oxford United just made sense!

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Third Time Lucky

04 Friday Jul 2025

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Sunday 20th April 2025 ko 12:00

South West Peninsula League Premier East

HONITON TOWN 0

SIDMOUTH TOWN 2 (Veal 32 Spalding 86)

Att 444

Entry £6

Programme £2

I remember back in the day, well 2015, GroundhopUK sorted of hosted a game at Cardiff Met FC. For us it was a precursor to a hop over the next two days in the Ceredigion League. There were all the trappings of a hop game, but it wasn’t part of the schedule, and we saw similar here at Honiton. The reason, though was entirely different…

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The Turbine

30 Monday Jun 2025

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Saturday 19th April 2025 ko 18:00

South West Peninsula League Premier West

LAUNCESTON AFC 0

CALLINGTON TOWN 1 (Skews 32)

Att 603

Entry £6

Programme £2

I’m not sure why, but I didn’t expect much from Launceston Town. Even their programme suggested there were better grounds on the Easter Hop than Pennygillam. I surprised myself by arriving before most of the programme enthusiasts, and again when I ssaw what the club were doing for their big fundraising day.

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The Prayer

27 Friday Jun 2025

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Saturday 19th April 2025 ko 14:30

South West Peninsula League Premier West

BODMIN TOWN 0

DOBWALLS 3 (Larrieu 12secs Tate 41 Kenyon 48)

Att 316

Advance Ticket for all games on the hop £55

Entry £6

Programme £2

I arrived at Priory Park, to a queue of groundhoppers trying to make sense of the Pay & Display machine. Gone are the days when you simply insert a combination of coins you never seem to have, now you phone an automated number that doesn’t seem to understand English, or manipulate an App you don’t have, and there’s not enough 5G to download it. Here by coincidence my one parking App was the one in use here…. the adage of the chimp and the typewriter comes to mind.

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The One

22 Sunday Jun 2025

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Saturday 19th April 2025 ko 11:00

St Piran League Division One East

NANPEAN ROVERS 6 (Oldham 5 36 Brown 35 Best 85 86 Lawrence 90+1)

ROCHE AFC 0

Att 432

Advance Ticket for all games on the hop £55

Entry & Programme £3

Saturday on the hop dawned and the ground, with all due respect to all the other host clubs over Easter, we all anticipated visiting the most. For the person that’s been following this blog for a while may remember Robyn and I visiting the glory that is the former china clay pit near St Austell 5 years ago. Such is the reputation of Victoria Bottoms that it created an issue in the minds of a certain kind of groundhopper.

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Bodieve

18 Wednesday Jun 2025

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Friday 18th April 2025 ko 19:00

South West Peninsula League Premier West

WADEBRIDGE TOWN 1 (Harris 80)

CAMELFORD AFC 1 (Bidgood 78)

Att 427

Entry £6

Programme £2

From the crush at Truro the Peninsula Hop returned to a sense of normality at Wadebridge. That said, the rains persisted, and the fact that we’d got a soaking meant I really didn’t fancy another at Bodieve Park.

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Tin Tactics

02 Monday Jun 2025

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Friday 18th April 2025 ko 15:00

National League South

TRURO CITY 0

TORQUAY UNITED 1 (Jay 65)

Att 3,306

Advance Ticket for all games on the hop £55

Entry £15

Programme £3

Consider if you will the lot of the groundhop organiser. You’ve got plenty (believe me!) to worry about but one major issue is the middle game of just about any day. You know that there will be no end of competition for the groundhoppers’ attention at 3pm or thereabouts. Here the organiser Phil Hiscox had a real dilemma.

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Strike A Pose

01 Sunday Jun 2025

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Friday 18th April 2025 ko 11:30

South West Peninsula League Premier West

ST DAY 3 (Marks 16 23 Cleverly 32)

PENZANCE AFC 1 (Smith 56)

Att 416

Advance Ticket for all games on the hop £55

Entry £6

Programme £1

Saturday saw the Peninsula Hop start as south-west as we were going to get, in Redruth’s environs and for the next 2 days plus, basically headed north-east. Despite the geography there was little question that in purely groundhopper terms St Day would be the most popular Peninsula League club on the weekend’s event.

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Peppermint

27 Tuesday May 2025

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Thursday 17th April 2025 ko 19:45

South West Peninsula League Premier West

NEWQUAY AFC 5 (Price 18 31 MacConie 81 Cole 90+2)

WENDRON UNITED 0

Att 1,854

Advance Ticket for all games on the hop £55

Entry £6

Programme £3

This year’s South West Peninsula League Hop was especially interesting on a few levels. The first was that the hop wasn’t just in the Peninsula League, organiser Phil Hiscox had decided to take in clubs in both the National League South and the St Piran Leagues. It certainly added more colour to an always excellent event.

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The Sun Still Shines

21 Wednesday May 2025

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Saturday 12th April 2025 ko 15:00

Championship

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 0

OXFORD UNITED 1 (Long 79)

Att 25,646

Entry £33

Programme £3.50

If you’re going to visit all the iconic football grounds in England I’d suggest that Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough would be close to the top of just about any list. The ground dates from 1899, and post World War II became one of the country’s pre-eminent grounds. The first of 26 FA Cup semi finals here here took place in 1915.

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