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20 Wednesday Jun 2018

Posted by laurencereade in S

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Aslockton and Orston, Central Midlands League, Chris Berezai, cmfl, Football, GroundhopUK, Highfield Road, Hop, Non League, Rob Hornby, Swanwick Pentrich Road

Friday 4th May 2018 ko 19.00

Central Midlands League -South Division

SWANWICK PENTRICH ROAD 3 (G Wilding 52 Brooks 77 83)

ASLOCKTON & ORSTON 0

Att 194

Entry £3

Programme £1

If there was ever a league with a history with the organised groundhop it was the Central Midlands League. It reached the national consciousness in 2004 when the league hosted the first and so far only 5-in-a-day hop with the Times in tow to cover it! The hop also managed to be the first to feature 8 games in 48 hours in a freezing March in 2008. Who could forget the snow in Calverton? Of course at the centre of the hops were Chris Berezai at GroundhopUK and the league’s Rob Hornby. Continue reading →

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My very own mug!

19 Sunday Aug 2012

Posted by laurencereade in S

≈ 5 Comments

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Adrian Whitmore, Central Midlands League, Franz Xaver Graf von Werra, Guy Wilding, Highfield Road, home-made club mugs, John Balfour, Leicestershire Senior League Division One, midlands regional alliance, Newhall United, Penalty, Richard Jeffery, Steve Cook, Swanwick Pentrich Road, The one that got away

Saturday 18th August 2012 ko 3.00pm

Midlands Regional Alliance Premier Division

SWANWICK PENTRICH ROAD 5 (Wilding 62 71 A Whitmore 64 86 Jeffery 78) Jeffery missed penalty 45

NEWHALL UNITED 1 (Balfour 29p)

Att 13 (h/c)

Entry FREE

No Programme

Tea in a mug 70p

I have to say that this charming little club does have a rather particular name. Consider if you will the small Derbyshire village of Swanwick. It’s a former pit village near Alfreton, and is best known for the German flying ace Franz Xaver Graf von Werra, who escaped from the Swanwick Hayes POW camp in December 1940. He reached RAF Hucknall and was recaptured after trying to steal an aircraft in the guise of a Dutch airman. He finally did escape later in the war, and his exploits are immortalised in the flim “The one that got away.”

But let’s look at that name again, to the best of my knowledge there’s no other team in Swanwick so why have a name that’s so specific? Continue reading →

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