24 Saturday Oct 2015
Posted in C
Saturday 17th October 2015 ko 16.30
Western League Premier Division
CADBURY HEATH 0
CRIBBS 0
Att 185
Entry £5
Programme £1
Once again another lean forward to check the coach driver’s sat-nav revealed another mile’s journey between games. And just like between the first two games we spotted someone who was walking between the games, so we offered him a lift to Keynsham after this one but he declined, perhaps he foresaw the score here!
22 Thursday Oct 2015
Tags
Ashton and Backwell, Castle Road, Oldland Abbotonians, United, Western League, Western League Hop
Saturday 17th October 2015 ko 13.45
Western League Division One
OLDLAND ABBOTONIANS 3 (Morgan 50 Stone 88 90p)
ASHTON & BACKWELL UNITED 4 (Biggins 11 31 44p Skidmore 73) Allen sent off FT (2nd booking)
Att 201
Entry £5
Programme £1
I took my place back on the coach just outside Bitton’s ground. Sat behind the driver I could see his sat-nav, so I leaned forward so see how far we’d have to travel to our next game. Just a mile the display said, and as I settled back I felt a slight pang of regret of just how much time and effort I’d spent watching the two clubs individually. On a more positive note what I did have was no worries on Oldland secretary Martin McConachie’s ability to host the game. Continue reading
20 Tuesday Oct 2015
Posted in Uncategorized
Saturday 17th October 2015 ko 11.00
Western League Premier Division
BITTON AFC 3 (Bryan 15 47 Tong 71)
STREET 3 (Murray 10 21 Hunt 22)
Att 217
Entry £5
Programme £1
Even with the amount of events GroundhopUK now runs, the chance to run a hop in a completely new league is still relatively unusual. So the chance to approach the project with a blank sheet of paper was no bad thing. We have a tried and tested way of doing things for Step 5 and 6 leagues but there is always both room for improvement, and a sense of new light through old windows was a thought worth pursuing. Continue reading
19 Monday Oct 2015
Posted in C
Friday 16th October 2015 ko 19.45
Western League Division One
CORSHAM TOWN 1 (Lardner 82)
CALNE TOWN 2 (Windsor 12 Beasley 54)
Att 293
Entry £5
Programme £1
If you metaphorically scratch the surface of the Western League Hop, you get League General Secretary Mark Edmonds. It was him who put the idea in as part of his successful application to the role, and it was him who first put the idea to his clubs. From GroundhopUK’s perspective we’d had an abortive attempt at the project a decade or so earlier, so we hadn’t even considered the idea. But all kinds of coincidences happened to make this happen. Continue reading
27 Friday Feb 2015
Posted in C
Tags
Chard Town, Dorset Premier League, Roman Glass St George, Somerset County League, Western League, Zembard Lane
Wednesday 25th February 2015 ko 19.30
Western League Division One
CHARD TOWN 1 (Chlopecki 38)
ROMAN GLASS ST GEORGE 2 (Hamilton-Dunn 42 88)
Att 62
Entry £5
Programme £1
When groundhoppers talk over a pint, often its ground quirks that dominate the conversation. If the topic of sloping pitches comes up you soon find out who’s been to Chard or not. Put simply the ground at Zembard Lane is the slope to which all other slopes are compared.
12 Thursday Feb 2015
Posted in H
Tags
Bristol, great western railway, Hengrove Athletic, The Grove, Warminster Town, Western League, Western League committee
Tuesday 10th February 2015 ko 19.30
Western League Division One
HENGROVE ATHLETIC 1 (E Saunders 42)
WARMINSTER TOWN 2 (Lapham 25 54)
Att c40
Entry £5
No Programme
Tea-in-a-mug £1
I have spent far too much of my life sitting in traffic in that dead zone of Bristol that sits between the end of the M32 and Bristol Temple Meads station. The latter, Brunel’s great monument to the Industrial Revolution in general and the Great Western Railway specifically, marks the point where the Central Business District starts to give way to housing then off towards suburbia. Once suburbia ends, that’s where you’ll find Hengrove Athletic.
04 Thursday Dec 2014
Posted in W
Tags
Cuthbury, Dorset Senior Cup, Sherborne Town, Southern League, Western League, Wimborne Minster, Wimborne Town
Tuesday 2nd December 2014 ko 19.45
Dorset Senior Cup Quarter-Final
WIMBORNE TOWN 4 (Gamble 16 60 Davison 65 Webb 72)
SHERBORNE TOWN 1 (Burton 1)
Att 91
Entry £6 (normally £9)
Programme £1.50
With the blog now roughly 600 articles old, I do get followers on social media that do so to follow the updates. It’s all very gratifying, especially when the follower is a club I haven’t visited! The downside is the guilt when I pick somewhere that isn’t a follower, so I decided to go for the safe approach and watch Wimborne! Continue reading
21 Friday Nov 2014
Posted in W
Wednesday 19th November 2014 ko 19.30
Western League Division One
WARMINSTER TOWN 0
RADSTOCK TOWN 2 (Metcalf 45 Harvey 45)
Att 110
Entry £5
Programme £1
Sausage & Chips £1.50
When the rains come you drive to football with the risk that when you reach your destination the game will be off. You can mitigate the risk by phoning ahead, and Twitter is a godsend to the groundhopper, but you never quite know until you turn the corner and see the floodlights shining through the trees. Continue reading
06 Thursday Nov 2014
Posted in R
Tags
Radstock Town, Southfields, Stiff Little Fingers, Town, Welton Rovers, Western League, William Waldegrave, Wincanton
Tuesday 4th November 2014 ko 19.30
Western League Division One
RADSTOCK TOWN 4 (Carter 6 Harvey 26 Hardiman 89 Metcalf 90)
WINCANTON TOWN 2 (Jordan 68 Chant 90)
Att 61
Entry £6
Programme £1
Perhaps its just my ignorance, but until I visited nearby Welton Rovers, you can see their lights as you travel south from Bath, I didn’t associate Somerset with coal mining. That was genuinely my error, the pits were started in the late 18th century and at one point were owned by the Waldegrave family, you may remember MP William Waldegrave, but the last pit finally closed in 1973. The clues are still there, be it the “Miners” nickname of the football club, or the rows of terraces miners’ cottagers as you climb the hill towards the Southfields Recreation Ground. Continue reading
27 Sunday Jul 2014
Posted in A
Tags
AEK Boco, Bristol, Bristol Premier Combination, Cadbury Heath, Danny Kitson, Gloucestershire County League, Greenbanks, Hanham, Hanham Athletic, Kitson, West Ham United, Western League
Wednesday 23rd July 2014 ko
Pre-Season Friendly
AEK-BOCO 2 (Kitson 41 72)
CADBURY HEATH 2 (Tongue 10 Huxley 44)
Att 78
Entry FREE
No Programme
My appearance at this was purely based to London-based Mark Wilkins. We were watching Coventry United the previous day, and I asked Mark where he was going the next day. He replied, and once I’d established they were a team from Hanham in Bristol, and not a Nigerian Islamic terrorist group I decided to join him. Continue reading
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