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Just Like Watching Brazil

31 Wednesday Jan 2024

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Saturday 27th January 2024 ko 14:00

Witney & District League Division 2

LEAFIELD 1 (I Ribeiro 19)

YARNTON A 2 (Fouracre 26 Payne 46)

Att c10

Free Entry

If it’s my lot to slowly visit all the grounds of the Witney & District League like this, I’ll be quite happy. I’d remembered passing by Leafield between Milton-under-Wychwood and Minster Lovell on the first Witney Hop and wondering why I hadn’t put them on too! The truth of it, is that my geography of this part of West Oxfordshire wasn’t great, and in any case I was happy with the clubs we visited back in 2019.

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Update

25 Thursday Jan 2024

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Saturday 20th January 2024 ko 15:00

Hellenic League Division One

LONG CRENDON 2 (Richardson 32 Bartley 90+4)

FC BRISTOL 5 (Plummer 47 75 80 Miller 69 Collins 70)

Att c40 at Oxford City FC

Entry & Programme £6

It was a day of frozen pitches, or to put a more positive spin on things a time to make use of 3G pitches. In my part of the world that added up to whoever happened to be using Oxford City‘s 3G pitch. I looked, saw it was Long Crendon, and smiled.

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The Lasses

22 Monday Jan 2024

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Sunday 14th January 2024 ko 13:00

FA Women’s Cup 4th Round

SUNDERLAND AFC WOMEN 0

SOUTHAMPTON FC WOMEN 2 (Wilkinson 55 88)

Att 300 at Eppleton Colliery Welfare, Hetton-le-Hole

Entry £10

Once Robyn and I had decided that the trip to watch Carlisle United was going to be 3-day affair, then I knew we’d have no end of alternatives for a game on the Sunday. There was of course the inevitable bending of “It’s on the way home” but I imagine that by now you’ve come to expect that? I mean of course Hetton-le-Hole is en route from Carlisle to Oxford, isn’t it? Just the A69 to negotiate…..

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Raz, Daz,& Maz

17 Wednesday Jan 2024

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Saturday 13th January 2024 ko 15:00

EFL League 1

CARLISLE UNITED 1 (McAlmont 71)

OXFORD UNITED 3 (Harris 39 47 Goodrham 67)

Att 7,827 (562 away)

Entry £23

Programme £2

I’d argue that the roots of my groundhopping lie with watching Oxford United away games, so Robyn wanting to visit Carlisle as part of completing her “92” felt like me visiting part of my past. Back in the day there were four of us who used to travel together, 3 of us sharing driving duties. There was Darrell, Russell and Michelle, who quickly became “Raz, Daz and Maz” in the eyes of my ex-wife who probably saw them as a neat way of removing me from the house.

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The Hospitality

16 Tuesday Jan 2024

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Friday 12th January 2024 ko 19:30

Northern League Division One

NORTHALLERTON TOWN 0

REDCAR ATHLETIC 1 (Boyes 37)

Att 403

Entry £7

Programmme £2.50

Hospitality package (entry, programme, 2 course meal) £25

It’s odd how some things work out. Robyn and I had tried to watch Northallerton Town around 4 years ago. We’d travelled up from Oxford, and as we reached the Calvert’s Stadium, the floodlights were switched off; the game had just been postponed due to a frozen pitch. We found a meal locally, then headed back home down the A1(M). As Robyn put it, it was a mighty long way to go for a Chinese!

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Royalty

15 Monday Jan 2024

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Saturday 6th January 2024 ko 13:45

Witney & District League Division One

WITNEY ROYALS 0

DUCKLINGTON 2 (Fisher 25 Williams 70og)

Att c15 at Pitch 1 Burwell Recreation Ground, Thorney Leys, Witney

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I’d had all kinds of ideas as to where to watch a game. The determining factor was a triple of sorts, football, Oxford City Stars Ice Hockey unusually facing off on a Saturday evening, and the pub quiz at 9pm. But as much as I like being busy there was another factor to be considered- the rain.

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Nesting

09 Tuesday Jan 2024

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Saturday 30th December 2023 ko 15:00

Northern Counties East League Division One

SWALLOWNEST 1 (Spick 84)

SHIREBROOK TOWN 6 (Macaskill 17 38 Day 44 54 Skelton 49og K Watson 80)

Att 135

Entry £6

Programme £2 (reissue from 12/09/23)

On the way back from Warrington we’d pondered ideas for our last game of 2023. I must admit we’d rather neglected the Northern Counties East, I’d more or less completed the league when the groundhop was based there, but that event finished at Selby in 2017 and there’s been plenty of club churn since then.

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Mystery

21 Thursday Dec 2023

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Tuesday 19th December 2023 ko 19:45

Isthmian League Cup 4th Round

CHATHAM TOWN 3 (Evans 64p Isiaka 70 84)

BASILDON UNITED 1 (Fitzer 90)

Att 453

Entry £12

Programme £2.50

Mulled wine and mince pies- Free!

In the groundhopping scheme of things, someone travelling from Oxford to Chatham to watch a game isn’t that unusual. What was, was that when I made the decision to head to Kent I was sat in the car park at Ipswich Town’s training ground! I’d arrived there precisely 7 minutes after they’d postponed the game, and with my evening game at Little Oakley quickly succuming to waterlogging too, it was time to play the 3G card.

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Downton

18 Monday Dec 2023

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Saturday 3rd December 2023 ko 14:00

Witney & District League- Division One

BAMPTON UNITED 6 (Parker 13 J Haley 44 Gardiner 48og S Haley 55 Pritchard 66 Hughes 75)

EYNSHAM SSC 1 (Oates 77)

Att c20

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I’ll always feel that Bampton is the one that to some extent, got away. If like most you use the A420 to get here you’ll see just how this part of what is now West Oxfordshire forms the border between the North Berkshire League and the Witney & District League. As in to demonstrate the point, I drove past Kingston Bagpuise, of the North Berks, and the old Bampton Town transfered out of the North Berks in 2011.

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Hub Spot

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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