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Re-Visitor

30 Thursday Aug 2018

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Monday 16th July 2018 ko 19.15

Surrey FA Meadowbank Launch Event/ Pre-season Friendly

CHELSEA U18 4 (Ballo 23 38 Wiggett 49 Clark 84)

OXFORD UNITED U18 0

Att 600

Entry FREE (by advance ticket)

Programme FREE

Teamsheet FREE

If the visit to Bath City’s Twerton Park was visiting one of the grounds you simply have to see before you die, then back in the day Dorking FC’s Meadowbank Ground was another on that list. Dorking were already struggling following relegation from the Isthmian League and when I visited in 2013 it was to be the club’s last season here. When the ground’s owners, Mole Valley District Council closed Meadowbank down on health and safety grounds, their exile at local rivals Dorking Wanderers’ Westhumble home was to be the death knell for the club. Continue reading →

Meat & Greet

16 Thursday Aug 2012

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Sunday 12th August 2012 ko 3.00pm

FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round

COBHAM 1 (McLaren 28)

SOUTH PARK 1 (Burgess 12)

Att 133 (h/c)

Entry £5

Programme £1

This one was a complete bonus, although I’d have taken some convincing when becalmed on the M25. I never did find out how the “Leg O’ Mutton” field got its name, but its been on my to-do list for years. Why so long? Probably that doing it was too straightforward! I remember seeing them as the visitors at AFC Wallingford in 2003, they lost 5-1 but I did find out their most famous player was cricketer Bob Willis!

I reached the ground after a trip through millionaire’s row, realising why Chelsea FC have their training ground around here. Apart from the affluent, the area is the home to the site of the Brooklands motor racing circuit, and more locally the Cobham Mill, which dates from 1822, but is the site of milling from medieval times.

A warning for those visiting Cobham Continue reading →

They beat South Park! You…..!

05 Thursday Jan 2012

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Wednesday 4th January 2012 ko 7.45 pm

Combined Counties Premier Division

SOUTH PARK 0

MOLE VALLEY SCR 2 (Elgar 35 Holden 62)

Att 87

Entry £5

Programme £1

Badge £3

Tea 80p

Cheeseburger £2.60

South Park, are named after the district of Reigate in which they play, and I immediately pondered on the lack of another senior club in the Surrey Town. To all but a few, you could be almost anywhere! Within Reigate, there’s Reigate Hill FC who play in the Redhill and District League, and Reigate Priory who play a notch higher up in the Surrey Elite Intermediate League.  Not exactly high level fare for a bustling market town, possibly best known for being the setting for the Sherlock Holmes short story,” The Adventure of the Reigate Squire.” Continue reading →