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People’s March

07 Tuesday Jul 2026

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Monday 6th April 2026 ko 11:30

Northern League Division Two

JARROW 2 (Barber 64 Hardie 74)

BOLDON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 2 (Laidler 45+1 Devlin 90+3)

Whitfield (assistant manager) sent off 56 (serious foul play)

Att 507

Entry £5

Programme £2

The Northern Hop’s last day has all the feel of trying to reintregrate outselves into the real world after 10 games in 4 days. Robyn and I were tasked with taking “Welsh Football” editor Dave Collins to Darlington Station- unfortunately Bank Holiday Monday and trains to Cardiff don’t mix!

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One From The Ladies

03 Friday Jul 2026

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Sunday 5th April 2026 ko 18:30

Northern League Division Two

DURHAM UNITED 4 (Kay 28 87 90+3 Dixon 55)

ESH WINNING 2 (Jowett 57 Cherrie 81)

Att 382 at Maiden Castle

Entry £6

Programme £2

Around 2 and half years ago Robyn and I were planning our route home to Oxford from a trip to Carlisle United and decided to make a game on our way home. Our options were Sunderland Women playing at Eppleton CW or Durham WFC at The Graham Sports Centre, Maiden Castle. We picked Sunderland, mainly due to Eppleton’s history in the Northern League. Since Durham United also use Maiden Castle it, unwittingly turned into a good choice!

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Billy

01 Wednesday Jul 2026

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Sunday 5th April 2026 ko 11.00

Northern League Division Two

BILLINGHAM TOWN 0

BILLINGHAM SYNTHONIA 2 (Healy 18 Irvine 90+2)

Att 758

Entry £6

Programme £2

GroundhopUk’s first organisation of the Northern Hop was nothing if not ambitious, Easter Sunday is often the most difficult day to get clubs to play on, but while I’m not party to conversations in League circles, we got 3 committed host clubs and when you’re turning up for your 8th game of the weekend that is a godsend!

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Star

28 Sunday Jun 2026

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Saturday 4th April 2026 ko 14:30

Northern League Division One

NEWCASTLE BLUE STAR 2 (Reid 41p 61)

CARLISLE CITY 1 (Bannon 7)

Att 592

Entry £8

Programme £2

The coach pulled up outside the KD Stadium and will all due respect to all the other clubs on the Northern Hop it all felt at a higher level, to the extent that GroundhopUK was simply adding 200 or so on the gate. Being a Saturday there were plenty of alternatives for the groundhoppers’ pound, and clearly a few took the opt out. For Chris Berezai and I, other than our reponsibility to the event, had a more oblique reason to find Newcastle Blue Star interesting.

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