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Back to the start of it all

08 Friday Aug 2014

Posted by laurencereade in P

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Bugbrooke St Michaels, GroundhopUK, Lincoln Road, Olly Garofallo, Parkway PSL, Peterborough & District League, Peterborough Sports, Ryan Ansell, United Counties League

Saturday 2nd August 2014 ko 19.45

United Counties League Division One

PETERBOROUGH SPORTS 1 (Simpson 50)

BUGBROOKE ST MICHAELS 1 (Ansell 25)

Att 283

Entry £4

Programme £1

Badge £3

Mug £5

I do like to see a hop visit its genesis. I deliberately started the very first North Berkshire hop at the geographical centre of the league, Steventon Green, and since my first meeting with the United Counties League was here at the start of last season, report and club history here, it seemed only fitting that they feature on the first UCL/PDFL hop.

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Cool

07 Thursday Aug 2014

Posted by laurencereade in R

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Chris Berezai, Daimler Avenue, GroundhopUK, Peterborough & District League, Peterborough Academy, Peterborough Sports, Queens Park, Riverside, United Counties League, Yaxley

Saturday 2nd August 2014 ko 13.45

Peterborough & District League Premier Division

RIVERSIDE 3 (Dello Russo 4 Lancaster 40 Donohoe 90p)

UPPINGHAM TOWN 1 (Binley 62)

Att 257

Entry £5

Programme £1

Badge £3

 

I was a little nervous as the coach left Leading Drove, for the mile-or-so journey to Daimler Avenue also in Yaxley. Its not as though GroundhopUk hadn’t organised games at lower levels of the game, will we ever visit a club of lower status than say Uffington United? It wasn’t as if the people at Riverside weren’t obviously up for the challenge, I’d enjoyed their company and admired their ideas at the club meetings, but I was very aware that we were at least in part taking some people out of their comfort zones.

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Transformer

04 Friday Oct 2013

Posted by laurencereade in P

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Alec Robinson, Bourne Town, Hinchingbrooke Cup, John Weeks, Kevin Brader, Lincoln Road, Peterborough, Peterborough Sports, UCL, United Counties League

Wednesday 2nd October 2013 ko 19.45

Hinchingbrooke Cup First Round

PETERBOROUGH SPORTS 2 (Brader 82 90)

BOURNE TOWN 1 (Robinson 30)

Att 85

Entry & Programme £3

It’s the lot of the groundhopper that you expand your circle of comfort time after time. Consider that idea for a moment, its that point on a journey when you can’t find your way home off the top of your head. When I was a child Dad would drive the family Mini to a resort somewhere in England or Wales, and initially it was a case of wondering whether at the end of the road we’d turn left for south or right for north.

As the years went by you learned more roads, the ring road around Oxford, the route to my Aunt and Uncle in Reading, and I saw a lot of the A34 south (I still do!). But as a groundhopper you gradually learn a taxi drivers knowledge of the motorways, and trunk roads of the country, but then, as you complete the football grounds of a particular area or league, that knowledge falls into abeyance.

It was the case to a large extent for Peterborough, up the A43, with the one junction stint along the M1 before heading past Northampton, Rushden and Raunds, before crossing under the A11. It was for a good reason, as Peterborough Sports are new to the United Counties League, and this was their first game under their new floodlights. However what I and the handful of other hoppers saw on arrival surprised each and every one of us.

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