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Tag Archives: Southern Amateur League

A Touch Of Frost

05 Monday Dec 2016

Posted by laurencereade in B

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Athenian League, banstead athletic, Combined Counties League, isthmian league, Merland Rise, Southern Amateur League, Surrey Premier Cup

Tuesday 29th November 2016 ko 19.45

Surrey Premier Cup, 2nd Round

BANSTEAD ATHLETIC 5 (Smith 43 90 Maddock 54 Hill 67 Frost 90)

OLD WILSONIANS 2 (Gravesande 12 Steadford 16)

Att 25

Entry £6

Programme £2

Just every groundhopper has been in this position, stood by the pay gate while the referee paws nervously at a hardening, frosty pitch. You know that it’s too late to head elsewhere, even my other possible fixture at Sittingbourne was to fall foul of the weather. You try and dig a heel into the turf to see if the cold ground will take that mythical stud. You fret, and thinking selfishly I really wanted to see this game, as it was one of the more interesting ties in a County Cup this season. Continue reading →

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Dashwood

14 Friday Oct 2016

Posted by laurencereade in W

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1907 schism, AFA, Amateur Football Association, Amateur Football Combination, Bromley, Corkscrew Hill, Dulwich Hamlet, Football, groundhopping, Kent Youth League, Southern Amateur League, West Wickham

Sunday 25th September 2016 ko 11.00

Kent Youth League U18 North

WEST WICKHAM 0

DULWICH HAMLET 6 (Wilson 19 Osideko 34 42 Histon 39 Buchan 56 Kamara 87)

Att 48

Entry FREE

No Programme

Now here’s a curiosity, a part railed pitch with hard standing near Bromley in Kent that until recently would have passed muster for Step 6. But to use a piece of groundhopping vernacular it doesn’t fall under many hopping “Radars.” But the reason Corkscrew Hill is an oddity is due to what happened in 1907.

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