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La Grange

21 Wednesday Jan 2026

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Tuesday 21st October 2025 ko 19:45

Northern Premier League Division One Midlands

LONG EATON UNITED 1 (Taylor 11)

ANSTEY NOMADS 2 (Thomas 18 53)

Att 144

Entry £11

Programme £2

With Swedish Hop organiser Kim Hedwall still visiting us, I picked a game as much for who the host club’s media officer is than anything else. GroundhopUK’s Chris Berezai is originally from Bridgend but has lived in Long Eaton for well over 20 years. And other than organising more groundhops than anyone else, he’s also media team manager at Long Eaton United. Add Dan Bishop, the self-styled Poundland Peter Ustinov into the mix- he also is doing his “92” by rejection letter- he applies for every manager’s job going, and you have possibly the club least likely to ditch the printed programme!

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Changes

18 Sunday Jan 2026

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Monday 20th October 2025 ko 19:45

Southern League Premier Central

REDDITCH UNITED 1 (Loughlan 52)

Fowler (manager) sent off 58 (foul & abusive)

ALVECHURCH 0

Hamilton sent off 55 (2nd booking)

Att 777

Entry £12

Programme- online only, non downloadable

The downside of the “Everywhere Once” groundhopping culture is that you seldom see how a ground develops over time. I’d visited Redditch United’s Valley Stadium back in August 2007 for a pre-season friendly against Bromsgrove Rovers. I liked the place, who couldn’t love that main stand, the terracing and that massive club shop? But I’d ticked the place, so why go back?

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Connections

16 Friday Jan 2026

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Saturday 11th October 2025 ko 14:00

Oxfordshire Senior League Division 4

OXFORD PHOENIX 3 (Abdalla 4 EL Bardhdadi 15 Sikod 18)

BICESTER PARK 0

Match abandoned due to safety pins on the pitch.

Att 15 at Greyfriars Catholic School, Cricket Road, Oxford

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It’s not massively unusual for me to be invited to games, although it’s always humbling to be asked. This one was a little unusual. Around 15 years ago I was watching a Sunday league game on a little used pitch in the suburb of Botley to the north of Oxford. As a club White Horse Abingdon have long since folded but recently I was sent a message by one of their former players.

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The Hollandites

16 Friday Jan 2026

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Sunday 5th October 2025 ko 14:00

Southern Counties East League Premier

HOLLANDS & BLAIR 2 (Rowlands 35p Gray 73)

SNODLAND TOWN 2 (Shoderu 37 Lee 90+1)

Att 372

Entry £7

Programme £2

Whatever happened prior to our trip to Gillingham I just wanted to GroundhopUK’s stint with the Southern Counties East to end well. We’d enjoyed the morning with Hythe Town, and as the coach pulled into the Star Meadow Social Club I fully expected to find the place looking similar to what I’d seen roughly 10 years earlier. The truth was, I couldn’t have been more wrong.

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Ting Ting

07 Wednesday Jan 2026

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Saturday 4th October 2025 ko 11:00

Southern Counties East League-Division One

CROYDON 6 (Asafu 2 25 87 Cormack 4 Barton 8 Ward 15)

HALLS ATHLETIC 0

Att 266

Entry £7

Programme £2

In so many ways it was obvious that this was the final SCEFL Hop. The main thing was the teams we were visiting seemed to consist of clubs relegated into the league being paired with others whose levels of enthusiasm at hosting were, at best lukewarm. As organisers you manage to the red lines, and hope for best.

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Saxon Times

06 Tuesday Jan 2026

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Tuesday 30th September 2025 ko 19:45

Notts Saturday Senior Cup First Round

STAPLEFORD TOWN 3 (Harrison 23 Phillips 48 Hughes 87)

DUNKIRK 2 (Walsh 68 Wilson 81)

Att 78

In the nicest possible way it was a shame this game was taking place. Two weeks earlier the game had been abandoned, due to a serious injury to Stapleford defender Mitchell Robinson, but I happened to be working in Nottingham on the day of this re-arranged tie. Whatever the opposite of serendipity is- this was it!

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Beeston Bump

05 Friday Dec 2025

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Tuesday 9th September 2025 ko 19:45

Anglian Combination Premier Division

SHERINGHAM 0

SPROWSTON 2 (Rose 3 Bowen 58)

Att c50

Entry £5

With work placing me in Norfolk, well Wymondham to be exact I knew that once my working day was done, I’d have plenty of footballing options in the area. I was surprised to find that in terms of new ticks, it was only two, and one of those shocked me.

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The Famous Shed

05 Friday Dec 2025

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Monday 25th August 2025 ko 14:00

West Lancashire League Premier Division

TEMPEST UNITED 3 (Firth 19secs Pendlebury 29 Monson 86)

ROSSENDALE 2 (Wylie 9 Foster 21)

Att 470

Entry £3

Programme £2

From CMB it was both unusual and gratifying to see so many people walk the quarter-of-a-mile through Lostock to Tempest United. The is named after the road the ground is in but with there being little or no parking at The Famous Shed, it solved what could have been an logistical nightmare. That said we did walk past a pub on the way; it was closed and would undoubtedly done a roaring trade if they’d have known who was walking past. Still, their loss was the football club’s gain…

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Cee Em Bee

01 Monday Dec 2025

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Monday 25th August 2025 ko 11:00

West Lancashire League Premier Division

C.M.B. FC 1 (Winstanley 1)

EAGLEY FC 3 (Stafford 7p 90+ 2 Waterhouse 90+5)

Att 392

Entry £3

Programme £2

I had mixed feelings as we bought some seaside rock on Blackpool seafront. I do like the place, even if it is tripperish to the extreme and getting run-down to the point where at short notice we were able to find cheap hotel rooms at a major seaside resort, in high season.

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Neighbours

24 Monday Nov 2025

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Sunday 24th August 2025 ko 17:00

West Lancashire League Premier Division

BURSCOUGH RICHMOND 2 (Carberry 79 Avis 90)

LOSTOCK ST GERARDS 1 (Sarda 34)

Att 407

Sunday’s final hop game saw us in Burscough’s environs- and for those not in the know the town is pronounced Burrs-Coe. The oddity of the piece was that there was and is a connection between Burscough and GroundhopUK- and its to be found in Anglesey!

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