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The Hill

25 Wednesday Feb 2026

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Saturday 8th November 2025 ko 14:00

Kent County League Premier Division

KINGS HILL 4 (Sibley 38 Grainger 52 Young 62 Wade 65)

CANTERBURY CITY 2 (Ikem 19 31)

Official Attendance 176

Entry & Programme £2.50

I know I’ve said it many times before but I do like to see groundhops in the diary that aren’t organised by ourselves at GroundhopUK. Other than the feeling that I don’t want to be the only game in town, I do like to attend other hops as there is always either something to learn, or at worst to reinforce our way of doing things. So when the Kent County League announced a Groundhopper Day I was a little intrigued.

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Culver Road

22 Sunday Feb 2026

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Saturday 1st November 2025 ko 17:45

Southern Combination Premier Division

LANCING 1 (Collier 36)

NEWHAVEN 3 (Blunt 3 Roag 60p Oliver 87)

Att 293

Entry £8

Programme £2

If you are going to revisit a ground as a neutral, then I’d suggest leaving plenty of time between the visits, and go when the changes to the stadium are clear and manifest. I’d argue that Culver Road and I would be a case in point.

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The Swifts

18 Wednesday Feb 2026

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Saturday 1st November 2025 ko 14:00

Southern Combination Division 2

SOUTHWATER 4 (Bicknell 24 Beg 38 88p Blayney 58)

FERRING 2 (Lanigan 4 Sutton 90+3)

Att 162

Entry £3

Programme £3

We headed to Horsham’s environs for our second game of the day, and by tradition it seems, one from the County League’s bottom division. Southwater is known locally for its country park but it is also home to Southwater Royals FC who play in the West Sussex league and Southwater FC who’ve played in the Southern Combination since 2021.

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The Aerodrome

28 Wednesday Jan 2026

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Tuesday 28th October 2025 ko 19:45

South West Peninsula League Premier East

MIDDLEZOY ROVERS 3 (Gilbert 40 Scott 48 Mead 62)

CULLOMPTON RANGERS 2 (Down 35 Corrick 38)

Att 167

Entry £6

Programme £1.50

Sometimes things work out in your favour. Work took me to Cornwall for the day so a trip to Westonzoyland on my way home made sense, and no I didn’t ever foresee heading to Bridgwater on the M5 northbound to see a Peninsula League game!

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Connections

16 Friday Jan 2026

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Saturday 11th October 2025 ko 14:00

Oxfordshire Senior League Division 4

OXFORD PHOENIX 3 (Abdalla 4 EL Bardhdadi 15 Sikod 18)

BICESTER PARK 0

Match abandoned due to safety pins on the pitch.

Att 15 at Greyfriars Catholic School, Cricket Road, Oxford

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It’s not massively unusual for me to be invited to games, although it’s always humbling to be asked. This one was a little unusual. Around 15 years ago I was watching a Sunday league game on a little used pitch in the suburb of Botley to the north of Oxford. As a club White Horse Abingdon have long since folded but recently I was sent a message by one of their former players.

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Ting Ting

07 Wednesday Jan 2026

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Saturday 4th October 2025 ko 11:00

Southern Counties East League-Division One

CROYDON 6 (Asafu 2 25 87 Cormack 4 Barton 8 Ward 15)

HALLS ATHLETIC 0

Att 266

Entry £7

Programme £2

In so many ways it was obvious that this was the final SCEFL Hop. The main thing was the teams we were visiting seemed to consist of clubs relegated into the league being paired with others whose levels of enthusiasm at hosting were, at best lukewarm. As organisers you manage to the red lines, and hope for best.

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Saxon Times

06 Tuesday Jan 2026

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Tuesday 30th September 2025 ko 19:45

Notts Saturday Senior Cup First Round

STAPLEFORD TOWN 3 (Harrison 23 Phillips 48 Hughes 87)

DUNKIRK 2 (Walsh 68 Wilson 81)

Att 78

In the nicest possible way it was a shame this game was taking place. Two weeks earlier the game had been abandoned, due to a serious injury to Stapleford defender Mitchell Robinson, but I happened to be working in Nottingham on the day of this re-arranged tie. Whatever the opposite of serendipity is- this was it!

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Family

24 Wednesday Dec 2025

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Saturday 13th September 2025 ko 17:30

Carmarthenshire League-Premier Division

BURRY PORT 0

Brown sent off 72 (handling outside of box)

KIDWELLY TOWN 2 (Boucher 86 Bessent 90+1)

Att 203

Entry & Programme £3

The final game of the day saw the West Wales Hop do something I didn’t think we’d ever do, and that is head back to the Carmarthenshire League. We’d used the league are a replacement for the the hugely successful Ceredigion Hops, but our time with them was nowhere near as succcessful, not least because we had real issues getting clubs to be away teams. It all culminated in the 2018 Hop that contained Swansea City’s youth team, the Bridgend Sunday League and a trip to Butetown in Cardiff but absolutely no games in Carmarthenshire.

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Leisure Pursuits

12 Friday Dec 2025

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Friday 12th September 2025 ko 19:15

West Wales Premier League

ROCKSPUR FORDS 3 (Morrell 5 Davies 45 Rees 51)

Miller sent off 53 (2nd Booking)

CWMAMMAN UNITED 0

Att 135 at Penyrheol Leisure Centre, Gorseinon, Swansea

Entry £3

Programme £2

If the West Lancs Hop was an introduction, then the West Wales was a farewell- at least for now. There was nothing sinster about that fact, the problem was that we’d run out of clubs to visit!

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Beeston Bump

05 Friday Dec 2025

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Tuesday 9th September 2025 ko 19:45

Anglian Combination Premier Division

SHERINGHAM 0

SPROWSTON 2 (Rose 3 Bowen 58)

Att c50

Entry £5

With work placing me in Norfolk, well Wymondham to be exact I knew that once my working day was done, I’d have plenty of footballing options in the area. I was surprised to find that in terms of new ticks, it was only two, and one of those shocked me.

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