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Compton

05 Thursday Sep 2019

Posted by laurencereade in C

≈ 1 Comment

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Cogenhoe, Compton Park, Football, GroundhopUK, Loughborough University, Non League, UCL/PDFL hop, United Counties League

Sunday 28th July 2019 ko 11.00

United Counties League Premier Division

COGENHOE UNITED 0

LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY 1 (Akpobire 32)

Att 262

Entry £6

Programme £1

As the hop coach climbed up into the hills above Northampton there seemed to be a symmetry between the UCL/PDFL hop’s visit to Compton Park and my visit 15 years-or so earlier. Then I’d watched a game in the wind and rain and returned to my car soaked. It had been a good thing that I was living in Banbury back then, less than an an hour’s drive away. Continue reading →

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The Big Cheese

23 Sunday Sep 2018

Posted by laurencereade in S

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Cardea, Cheese, GroundhopUK, New Ground, PDFL, Peterborough and District, Stilton, Stilton United, UCL/PDFL hop

Sunday 29th July 2018 ko 17.00

Peterborough & District League Division Two

STILTON FC 4 (West 38 49 80 McManus 74)

CARDEA 2 (Dandrilli 55 Yeoman 60)

Att 304

Entry £4

Programme £1

You mention Stilton and you can’t help think of cheese can you? In that sense it’s just like Cheddar, and I’m bound to comment that they attracted a lower attendance for their hop game, despite being 3 divisions higher in the footballing pyramid. Perhaps that’s an unfair comparison, as just about the only thing the two clubs have in common is the cheese. There was so much more going on at Stilton too… Continue reading →

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The Flour of Wellingborough

19 Wednesday Sep 2018

Posted by laurencereade in W

≈ 5 Comments

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Cogenhoe, groundhoppers, GroundhopUK, Non League, UCL/PDFL hop, United Counties League, Victoria Mill, Wellingborough Whitworth, Whitworths

Sunday 29th July 2018 ko 13.15

United Counties League Premier Division

WELLINGBOROUGH WHITWORTH 0

COGENHOE UNITED 3 (Dore 27 Dove 45 82)

Att 302

Entry £5

Programme £1

Quite literally it was a 30 second walk from Wellingborough Town’s Dog & Duck to Wellingborough Whitworth’s Victoria Mills Ground. One lies at right-angles to the other, and for years Whitworth were seen as very much the junior neighbour to Town. The club were started in 1973, and despite the name seem to have had little or no connection to the famous flour-making company based originally in Irthlingborough and now in Wellingborough. But in the here and now I had a queue to contemplate.

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A Great Pair of Tydds

10 Monday Sep 2018

Posted by laurencereade in T

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Football, Groundhopper Day, groundhopping, GroundhopUK, Moulton Harrox, PDFL, Peterborough and District, Tydd Fc, Tydd St Giles, Tydd St Mary, UCL/PDFL hop

Saturday 28th July 2018 ko 13.30

Peterborough & District League Premier League- Premier Division

TYDD FC 2 (McGuire 59og Clitheroe 90p)

MOULTON HARROX 3 (Bradbury 29 Townsend 50 King 58)

Att 342

Entry £4

Programme £1

The cavalcade didn’t have far to travel from Whaplode Drove to Tydd St Giles, even if our coach driver did manage to drive to Tydd St Mary first! You could see why he made the mistake, Tydd did play there last season! Continue reading →

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Elizabethan

07 Friday Sep 2018

Posted by laurencereade in W

≈ 1 Comment

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Football, groundhopping, GroundhopUK, Non League, PDFL, Peterborough and District, Rippingdale and Folkingham, UCL/PDFL hop, Whaplode Drove

Saturday 28th July 2018 ko 10.45

Peterborough & District League Division Two

WHAPLODE DROVE 1 (Forth 34)

RIPPINGDALE & FOLKINGHAM 3 (Mason 51 Hasler 74 Ferrow 77p)

Att 227

Entry £3

Programme £1

After the relative disappointment of the Raunds game, Saturday dawned with the knowledge that that the hop had a compelling day lined up. I smiled inwardly at myself thinking that, on the first hop I’d seen including the PDFL clubs as a risk, normally the organised groundhop’s sweet spot is at Non-League’s Steps 5 & 6. It is to the great credit of every single club we’ve featured from that league, that Chris and I at GroundhopUK knew that scheduling 3 PDFL hop games on the bounce would prove popular. And a little club from the 10th tier below the Football League proved the point rather well. Continue reading →

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