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Priorities

29 Wednesday Jan 2025

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Saturday 11th January 2025 ko 15:00

FA Cup 3rd Round

EXETER CITY 3 (Mitchell 22 40 Harper 63)

OXFORD UNITED 1 (Phillips 13)

Goodrham sent off 81 (violent conduct)

Att 6,149 (640 away)

Entry (Lounge Hospitality/ 2 course meal) £55

Programme £1 (included in hospitality)

No matter who you support, if you’ve made it to the FA Cup 3rd round you look for a good draw don’t you? If you’re a Championship or Premier League club you look for a lower league club at home, and hopefully a straightforward route to the fourth round. If you’re from the leagues that have had to win games to get here, then you want a glamour, money-spinning tie. I’d argue that League 1 Exeter City versus Championship Oxford United added up to neither.. unless you were Robyn and I.

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The BSA

18 Saturday Jan 2025

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Saturday 21st December 2024 ko 14:00

Oxfordshire Senior League, Premier Division

BICESTER TOWN COLTS 1 (Patrick 39)

THAME UNITED RESERVES 4 (Johnston 3 64 Bonwick 46 Carr 55)

Att 4 at Bicester Sports Association, Akeman Street, Chesterton

If finding a far flung game on the Friday I finish work is part of my pre-Christmas routine, then finding one closer to home on the Saturday is too. The rationale is easy, I’m part of a pub quiz team, we organise a Christmas meal out each year and since one of us requires it, we eat early.

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Dearne

16 Thursday Jan 2025

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Friday 20th December 2024 ko 19:45

Northern Counties East League Division One

DEARNE & DISTRICT 0

WORSBROUGH BRIDGE 3 (Grist 4 62 Brown 62)

Att 208

Entry £5

No Programme

It seems that just before Christmas there’s usually a couple of Friday night games, seemingly to tempt groundhoppers who’d finished work for the festive break. It does pay to be adaptable though, at lunchtime I’d planned on being South Wales, not South Yorkshire. Thanks to Phil Sweet of the South Wales Alliance for the early heads-up of a waterlogged pitch at Llwydcoed!

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Penpole

09 Thursday Jan 2025

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Tuesday 10th December 2024 ko 19:45

Gloucestershire FA Challenge Trophy- 2nd Round

SHIREHAMPTON 0

HALLEN 2 (Thomas-Barker 27 79)

Att 120

Entry £6

Programme- online only

With Robyn my wife being from Bristol I was a little surprised I hadn’t paid Penpole Lane a visit sooner. Shirehampton’s elevation to the Western League for last season has produced the frankly amazing position where they, Avonmouth, Cribbs, Hallen and Bristol Manor Farm are all within 3 miles of Penpole Lane, and all play at Western League level or better! You’ll pass by the alleyway entrance of Avonmouth’s King George V Recreation Ground on the way to Shirehampton, the two grounds are less than a mile apart!

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Starship

08 Wednesday Jan 2025

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Tuesday 3rd December 2024 ko 19:45

Isthmian League Division One North

CAMBRIDGE CITY 0

WALTHAM ABBEY 1 (Hallett 80)

Att 442

Entry £10

Programme £3

“Say you don’t know me or recognize my face
Say you don’t care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night.

Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don’t you remember?
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll“

Starship “We built this City”

Songwriters: Dennis Lambert / Peter F. Wolf / Martin George Page / Bernard Taupin

My wife Robyn called it correctly, “Why do groundhoppers tend to dive straight for a new ground as soon as its open? Surely you should aim for the grounds that are facing demolition?” The case of Cambridge City was one that added up to both though!

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John Jenkins

06 Monday Jan 2025

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Tuesday 26th November 2024 ko 19:45

Russell Cotes Cup First Round

MONEYFIELDS 4 (Kamin 14 Sargeant 23 Mahammedkier 67 De Sousa 83)

BAFFINS MILTON ROVERS 1 (Lukonyomoi 2)

Att 117

Entry £5

Programme £1

You may recall that a few years ago I visited the Portsmouth suburb of Copnor for the Moneyfields Sports Ground, named after the avenue on which it was located. The trains rumbled past behind the goal past the site of a station that was never built.

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The Microwave Oven Song

05 Sunday Jan 2025

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Saturday 16th November 2024 ko 14:00

North Bucks & District League- Intermediate Division Challenge Trophy- Quarter Final

REAL MK 1 (Boboc 21)

BLETCHLEY SCOT RESERVES 1 (Dowdall 41)

No extra time Scot won 6-4 on penalties

Att 4 at Pitch 2 Marsh Drive, Great Linford, Milton Keynes

Sometimes the restrictions placed upon you produce something interesting. That morning the car was going in for a change of sensor, and in the evening we had tickets to see a tribute band in Banbury. So my options were restricted so I travelled to Wavendon, collected Chris Garner and simply aimed for the nearest game at a ground neither of us had been to before.

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Diet Pies

24 Tuesday Dec 2024

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Sundy 27th October 2024 ko 11:00

Southern Combination Premier Division

PAGHAM 3 (Neighbour 45+2 63p Johnston 55)

LOXWOOD 2 (Brown 66 Martyn 76)

Att 259

Entry £7

Programme £2

GroundhopUK’s trip to Nyetimber Lane was a well over a year in the planning. It was their game that was lost to Storm Babet during last year’s hop, to the extent that it was wasn’t so much waterlogged off, more flooded to the extent that I’m not sure we could have got to the ground, much less see a game!

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The Crows Arms

16 Monday Dec 2024

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Saturday 26th October 2024 ko 17:45

Southern Combination Premier Division

CROWBOROUGH ATHLETIC 2 (Forster 6 18)

HASSOCKS 1 (Funnell 4)

Att 413

Entry £7

Programme £2

I must admit I treated the Saturday evening game on the Sussex Hop with a certain amount of trepidation. It wasn’t that Crowborough might do badly, rather it was me considering the antonym of the maxim “Smaller clubs tend to make more of an effort.”

Please don’t see this as a dig at any one club, more a comment that the vast majority of clubs with a history at Southern, Isthmian or Northern Premier League level can cope with hosting a hop game’s crowd. The catch is by scaling up and no more the club does miss out on additional revenue and the hopper gets to swerve the burgers…. again!

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Grotto

02 Monday Dec 2024

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Friday 25th October 2024 ko 19:30

Southern Combination Premier Division

ROFFEY 3 (Chedzey 20 Kyle 40 J Pearse 52)

AFC VARNDEANIANS 1 (Bukleb 19p)

Att 307

Entry £8

Programme £2

On reflection there aren’t many worse places to be jaded at than in the middle of a traffic jam on the M25 on a Friday night. I knew why I was; we’d come off the back of a Kent Hop 3 weeks earlier that had seen catering that with the exception of Sutton Athletic had failed to inspire. I’d spent most of that weekend metaphorically swerving burgers! Then there was the Sussex Hop to consider; I’d worried that at GroundhopUK we were promoting two hops in October at both a similar level, and part of the UK.

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