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Eldest

26 Monday Oct 2026

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Sunday 30th August ko 17:00

West Lancashire League Division One

TURTON 0

CARNFORTH RANGERS 3 (Holmes 11 44 Johnson 44)

Att 314

Entry £5

Programme £2

In just about every groundhop that’s ever been organised there’s always one club that proves to be a problem. Normally it’s a failure to communicate so the ideas that make these events successful don’t take root, and so the club runs the risk of failing to make the best of their opportunity. There was little doubt that Turton FC’s staging was always going to create issues, but this is the story of they moved heaven and earth to make their part of the West Lancs Hop work.

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Mills

16 Friday Oct 2026

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Sunday 30th August 2026 ko 14:00

West Lancashire League Premier Division

EAGLEY 2 (Stafford 41 O’Mahoney 67)

HURST GREEN 2 (J Craven 90+3 Bowlin 90+4)

Att 359

Entry £5

Programme £2

We stayed in Bolton’s environs for our next game, and a steady stream of traffic inched to an industrial estate with a sports ground at the back. That gave a hint as to the background of one of the oldest clubs in Lancashire.

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The Bride

11 Sunday Oct 2026

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Saturday 29th August 2026 ko 17:00

West Lancashire League Division 2

GALGATE 2 (Moore 45+2 McKeeking 78)

Lewis sent off 62 (DOGSO)

APPLEY BRIDGE 3 (Ray 11 Atkins 64 90+2)

Att 268

Entry & Programme £5

From Storeys to the village of Galgate the heavens opened. I smiled at two ironies, the firest was that the rain would help the rhubarb that grows prolifically here, and was once reckoned to havge been used to dye the silk that once was spun here. The second was that since we were sat in a traffic jam, I knew the hop was causing it, and so the weather wasn’t putting people off.

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Storied

09 Friday Oct 2026

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Saturday 29th August 2026 ko 14:00

West Lancashire League Division Two

STOREYS OF LANCASTER 7 (Hollywood 11 19 47 Creech 40 64 88 Fenton 43)

HAWCOAT PARK 0

Att 253

Entry £5

Programme £2

We headed into Lancaster itself for our next game, and another with difficult parking, in suburban streets. It wasn’t difficult to find a suitable space and half the fun of doing so was walking down York Road to the ground. A cat glowered at me, wondering why I and so many other strangers were invading his territory!

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Parsloe

01 Thursday Oct 2026

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Tuesday 25th August 2026 ko 19:45

Eastern Counties League Challenge Cup 1st Round

ATHLETIC NEWHAM 1 (Kennybella 89)

STANSTED 2 (Elenkov 65og Mignot 86)

Att 25

Entry £8

Programme online only

When I saw this fixture pop up I saw this as a good excuse to recomplete the Essex Senior League, you may recall me having the option on one of the Essex Senior’s Hop days when I ended up at Little Oakley . It was only on closer inspection that I realised that Athletic Newham had been relegated last season, and so I’d be completing what used to be the Eastern Senior League- now the Eastern Counties League Division One South.

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Sliding Doors

11 Friday Sep 2026

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Saturday 8th August 2026 ko 15:00

EFL Cup 1st Round

LEYTON ORIENT 2 (Mitchell 85 El Mizouni 88)

OXFORD UNITED 0

Att 3,783 (979 away)

Hospitality in Justin Edinburgh Stand £45 (entry, programme, teamsheet, lounge, 2 course meal)

Back in the early 90’s I was at university in North London within easy reach of Arsenal’s Highbury Stadium. I didn’t go very often, preferring to head home to Oxford whenever United had a home game and if they weren’t at home I’d try and visit every Football League ground in the capital. 35 years ago all you needed to do was turn up and pay, tickets were cheap and easily bought- how times change!

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Adders

10 Thursday Sep 2026

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Saturday 25th July 2026 ko 18:00

United Counties League Premier South

ATHERSTONE TOWN 7 (Harkin 7 Edwards 31 Collins 51 Steele 79p Smith 82 Wood 89 Newey 90+1)

HIGHGATE UNITED 0

Att 558

Entry £9

Programme £3

If you’d have approached this year’s UCL hop on the basis that you knew nothing of any of the 6 grounds, they my advice would have been that Atherstone’s Sheepy Road, was by far the best of the bunch, and I don’t think that’s a controversial view.

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Friends

22 Wednesday Jul 2026

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Saturday 16th May 2026 ko 18:30

North Berkshire Cup Final

BERINSFIELD 3 (Holdsworth 33p Palmer 49 Hinkin 64)

COMPTON 0

Att 215 at Abingdon United FC

Entry & Programme £5

I can’t pretend I couldn’t see the demise of the North Berkshire League coming. When I left the league’s committee 2 years ago the league was down to 2 divisions from 5 when the league was at its peak. Like just about everyone involved in football in the Shire, I’d heard the rumours about a mass exodus to the Oxon Senior League, but hoped that it was either an exaggeration or that the league might find replacement clubs.

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Bold as a Sergeant Major

12 Sunday Jul 2026

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Tuesday 14th April 2026 ko 19:30

Combined Counties League Division One

OXHEY JETS 1 (Mosca 59)

HILLINGDON BOROUGH 0

Att 89

Entry £8

Teamsheet FREE

After the exertions of the Northern Hop both Robyn and I took a little time to ourselves. I concentrated myself in Oxford United’s vain attempts to stay in the Championship, and watched with growing concern at what was going on in the North Berkshire League- I’d been on committee there until 2 years ago, but still maintained an interest from afar. But then Robyn fancied an evening game, and there was more than a touch of tragedy about heading here.

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North West

08 Wednesday Jul 2026

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Monday 6th April 2026 ko 14:30

Northern League Division Two

SUNDERLAND WEST END 2 (Benali 14 30)

SUNDERLAND RYHOPE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 4 (Forster 7og Knight 74 79 Dumba 90+8)

Att 475 at Ford Quarry Sports Hub

Entry £5

Programme £2

When the Northern League emailed over the line-up for the Easter Hop over to GroundhopUK, I did what many other groundhoppers would do, and that is to see how many new ground “ticks” I’d be clocking up. And if that is the limit of your emotional involvement you’ll have an enjoyable weekend, but as organiser you’ll never be that divorced from it all.

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