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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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Wild West End

28 Sunday Dec 2025

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Sunday 13th September 2025

11:00 West Wales Premier League

GARDEN VILLAGE 1 (Arnold 61)

CK SWISS VALLEY 1 (James 84)

Caul sent off (2nd booking) 87

Att 136

14:30 (but brought forward to 14:15)

West Wales Premier League

WEST END 1 (Griffiths 36)

Brain sent off 59 (dangerous play)

PENLAN 4 (Lorey 17 Jenkins 75p Otten 90 T Jenkins 90+4)

Charles sent off 59 (dangerous play)

Att 84

Entry & Programme at each game £5

It was (for now) the final day of the West Wales Premier League Hop- but we knew we had a problem, or more accurately two. The first issue was that we at GroundhopUK knew that both Garden Village and West End had recent history in the Welsh League, and given the crowd we’d attracted on the Saturday there was a fair chance that many of them would have visited the Sunday selection before and so headed for home.

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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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Gwilym

23 Tuesday Dec 2025

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Saturday 13th September 2025 ko 14:00

Ardal League South West

CLYDACH 0

MORRISTON TOWN 1 (M Jones 41)

Att 116

Entry & Programme £5

We headed into the Swansea valleys for our middle game of the day. Clydach is a centre for nickel production although anyone expecting an industrial hell hole will be very pleasantly suprised- the town is very elegant indeed, and the view from Coed Gwilym Park was quite stunning.

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The News

15 Monday Dec 2025

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Saturday 13th September 2025 ko 11:00

West Wales Premier League

LLANGENNECH 2 (Caffrey 9 Rumbelow 36)

L Griffiths sent off 90+2 (serious foul play)

Benjamin sent off 90+2 (serious foul play)

DAFEN WELFARE 2 (Brown 16 Williams 63)

Att 224

Entry £3

Programme £2

Saturday on the West Wales Premier Hop was slightly odd, in the sense that the only game in the league was this one, in the pretty village of Llangennech.

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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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The Famous Shed

05 Friday Dec 2025

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Monday 25th August 2025 ko 14:00

West Lancashire League Premier Division

TEMPEST UNITED 3 (Firth 19secs Pendlebury 29 Monson 86)

ROSSENDALE 2 (Wylie 9 Foster 21)

Att 470

Entry £3

Programme £2

From CMB it was both unusual and gratifying to see so many people walk the quarter-of-a-mile through Lostock to Tempest United. The is named after the road the ground is in but with there being little or no parking at The Famous Shed, it solved what could have been an logistical nightmare. That said we did walk past a pub on the way; it was closed and would undoubtedly done a roaring trade if they’d have known who was walking past. Still, their loss was the football club’s gain…

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Cee Em Bee

01 Monday Dec 2025

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Monday 25th August 2025 ko 11:00

West Lancashire League Premier Division

C.M.B. FC 1 (Winstanley 1)

EAGLEY FC 3 (Stafford 7p 90+ 2 Waterhouse 90+5)

Att 392

Entry £3

Programme £2

I had mixed feelings as we bought some seaside rock on Blackpool seafront. I do like the place, even if it is tripperish to the extreme and getting run-down to the point where at short notice we were able to find cheap hotel rooms at a major seaside resort, in high season.

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Neighbours

24 Monday Nov 2025

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Sunday 24th August 2025 ko 17:00

West Lancashire League Premier Division

BURSCOUGH RICHMOND 2 (Carberry 79 Avis 90)

LOSTOCK ST GERARDS 1 (Sarda 34)

Att 407

Sunday’s final hop game saw us in Burscough’s environs- and for those not in the know the town is pronounced Burrs-Coe. The oddity of the piece was that there was and is a connection between Burscough and GroundhopUK- and its to be found in Anglesey!

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Pugin

20 Thursday Nov 2025

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Sunday 26th August 2025 ko 11:00

West Lancashire League Division One

CROSTON SPORTS 0

LYTHAM TOWN 0

Att 371

Entry £3

Programme £2

We left the hotel in Blackpool and did a double-take- had some really tethered a horse on some rough ground by the car park? It takes all sorts I suppose, and I was about to watch my 5th, 6th and 7th games of the weekend. We headed to Chorley’s environs (now there’s a ground if you haven’t been!) and reached Croston to find an expertly marshalled parking system already in place.

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