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The Big Cheese

02 Thursday Oct 2025

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Saturday 26th July 2025 ko 14:45

United Counties League Division One

FCV GRACE DIEU 3 (Olajide-Oriowu 67 Halliday 75 Farouk 88)

Hallaci penalty saved 48

SHIREBROOK TOWN 0

Att 286

Entry £5

Programme £2

So there I was sat on the GroundhopUK coach with little idea where we were! I knew we were going to be watching Grace Dieu but it was only when we reached Thringstone that the penny droppped.

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Calling Elvis

28 Sunday Sep 2025

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Saturday 29th July 2025 ko 11:30

United Counties League Premier Division North

GRESLEY ROVERS 1 (Moore 57)

SHERWOOD COLLIERY 5 (Westcarr 13p 27p 41 60 Pearce 89)

Att 597 at the Moat Ground

Entry £8

Programme £2.50

Teamsheet 50p

I didn’t want to check Futbology, I knew it had been the best part of twenty years since I’d visited the Moat Ground. I’d actually visited after I’d given then Oxford United defender Scott Guyett a lift after he’d missed the team coach.

He also played for Gresley Rovers who are based in Church Gresley, near Swadlincote He pointed out that when Gresley won the Southern League in 1998 they were turned down for the Conference due to ground grading and were forbidden from using the Baseball Ground even through Derby County had moved out. The club that were promoted due to Gresley’s misfortune? Cheltenham Town.

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A Case Of Step 5

26 Friday Sep 2025

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Friday 25th July 2025 ko 19:45

United Counties League Premier Division South

COVENTRY UNITED 0

AYLESTONE PARK 1 (Samuels 70)

Att 490 at Butts Park Arena (Coventry RUFC)

Entry £7

Programme £2

I grabbed a seat at Butts Park Arena with plenty to think about. GroundhopUK have run events in the UCL for over 10 years, helped by the Peterborough & District League padding out the fixtures for the first few years, and the UCL’s footprint gradually drifting north. But we’re close to the end, and that does come with complications.

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The Conundrum

22 Monday Sep 2025

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Tuesday 15th July ko 19:15

James Chisnell Memorial Cup

EAST THURROCK COMMUNITY 0

GRAYS ATHLETIC 4 (Fitzer 22 Bantick 32 Lukaku 42p Shelvey 51)

Att 130 at Wyldecrest Sports Country Club, Corringham

Free Entry

On the face of it East Thurrock United always were a little unusual. They never actually played in Thurrock, rather in Corringham around 6 miles east, with the name apparently being because the Corringham name had already been taken! I, like no end of groundhoppers saw them at their final ground, Rookery Hill, but they folded in 2023 with owner Alfie Best blaming the club’s demise on “Historic Debt”

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The Lifeboat

15 Monday Sep 2025

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Saturday 5th July 2025 ko 14:00

Friendly

STOURBRIDGE 4 (Shaw 8 Campbell Freemantle 50 Bood 66)

DUDLEY TOWN 2 (Jae 20 Crook 30p)

Att 586

Entry £8

Programme £2

Any student of the non league game will tell you there’s something of a love/hate relationship between Stourbridge FC and their home at War Memorial Athletic Ground. On one hand, it is an icon of the West Midlands sporting scene, but since it is also a cricket ground the start and end of any football season is always an issue; I remember them playing early rounds of the FA Cup at Halesowen around 20 years ago.

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The Waterworks

19 Tuesday Aug 2025

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Saturday 7th June 2025 ko 16:00

Division 4 Stockholm Södra

NORSBORG FC 2 (Kelile 6 38)

Baysal sent off 67 (second booking)

IFK ASPUDDEN-TELLUS 4 (Vaitsis 35secs Hassan 15 Tavares 56 Birggersson 61p)

Att 88 at Kärsby BP

Free Entry

The Swedish Hop’s cost of £350 included bed and breakfast for two nights, all transport in Sweden, together with entry fees for all games, and a goodie bag!

The merry band that was the 2025 Swedish Hop continued our tour into Stockholm’s southern suburbs. Norsborg is famous as being for where the capital’s waterworks is based- I’m now wondering whether we could do some kind of Swedish Monopoly Board Hop next year. But moreover Norsborg is also used as the name of a range of furniture at IKEA- is there anything in the world more Swedish than that?

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Icelandic

13 Wednesday Aug 2025

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Friday 6th June 2025 ko 19:30

Division 2 Norra Svealand

NACKA FC 1 (Nisic 64)

IK FRANKE 0

Att 66 at Myrsjö I.P.

Free Entry

The Swedish Hop’s cost of £350 included bed and breakfast for two nights, all transport in Sweden, together with entry fees for all games, and a goodie bag!

The Swedish Hop minibus parked up in Sickla Kaj, in Stockholm’s ultra-hip Hammarby Sjöstad and the party had a short time to settle at the Best Western Hotel. Robyn and I have got so used to the place, and the area that it all feels as comfortable as old slippers.

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Football From A Stone

20 Sunday Jul 2025

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Wednesday 7th May 2025 ko 18:30

Aylesbury & District League Premier Division

AW FC 1 (Sheppard 37)

GREAT MISSENDEN 3 (Smith 18 73 Stephenson 59)

Att 11 at St John’s Sports & Social, Stone

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If you drive on the A418 between Thame and Aylesbury then inevitably you’ll pass through the pretty village of Stone. It’s one of those places that thousands of people drive through giving the place barely a thought. But there is plenty to enthuse….

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Communique

16 Wednesday Jul 2025

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Saturday 5th May 2025 ko 15:00

Kent County League Premier Division

METROGAS 3 (Wall 27 Meledje 67 90+1)

PECKHAM TOWN 0

Att 52

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The issue I tend to have with some locations is that it can be difficult to predict just how long it is going to take to get there? That goes double for anything within the M25 so with another trip to New Eltham in the offing, I planned a little detour with the idea being that it could be ditched if the traffic misbehaved- on this occasion it didn’t, so we spent a few minutes in Deptford.

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Gary

16 Wednesday Jul 2025

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Saturday 3rd May 2025 ko 14:30

West Yorkshire League-Premier Division

LITTLETOWN 3 (Reece Thompson 8 11 31)

POOL AFC 1 (Farrimond 88)

Att c50 at Beck Lane, Heckmondwike

If you are ever stuck for a game, and wonder where to head to on a Saturday I’ve long opined that a fair stating point are either of Peter Miles’ excellent articles “20 Glorious” and “20 More Glorious Non-League Grounds“

Sadly, the likes of Consett’s wonderful Belle Vue are no more, but there are still some gems to go after, and I for one have always got Pete’s list in the back of my mind when I’m thinking about where to go. Beck Lane in Heckmondwike is on the second list, so it was an easy decision when I spotted they were at home, and I was free…

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