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Barnton, Football, groundhop, GroundhopUK, Hop, Non League, North West Counties League, Townfield, Vauxhall Motors
Friday 8th March 2019 ko 19.45
North West Counties League- Division One South
BARNTON 0 Cobley sent off FT (foul/abusive)
VAUXHALL MOTORS 2 (Webb 35p Hassall 70)
Att 272
Entry £5
Programme £1
I’d met the coach we at GroundhopUK were using at Ellesmere, in Shropshire, and from there we headed north to pick up a cohort of groundhoppers at Crewe station. It gave me rare time to think as Paul picked his way through a series of leafy Cheshire villages. The first North-West Counties League Hop was 6 games over the last 2 days of the 2017 Easter Hop but its roots lie in a phone conversation I’d had with then Atherton Collieries’ programme editor Joe Gibbons in 2013 that lead to the hop party diverting there when a game at AFC Emley on the Northern Counties East Hop had been postponed due to drifting snow. Continue reading