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Testing

16 Sunday Oct 2016

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Tuesday 4th October 2016 ko 19.45

Southern League Cup 1st Round

AFC TOTTON 2 (Watts 64 Gosney 85)

WINCHESTER CITY 3 (Jenkinson 33 57 Wilson 89p)

Att 157

Entry £6

Programme £2

I think there’s a missing entry in the great groundhopping lexicon. There needs to be word or term for a ground you haven’t visited despite being it easy to get to, and you’ve visited plenty further away beforehand. For me, AFC Totton would be an extreme example, it’s easy enough to get to from Oxford, it’s been open since 2010 and to make things worse I actually managed to visit the adjacent Little Testwood Stadium, home to Totton & Eling four-and-half years ago!! Continue reading →

Dog of Five Head

12 Thursday Jan 2012

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Tuesday 10th January 2012 ko 7.45pm

Wessex League Premier Division

HORNDEAN 0

WINCHESTER CITY 1 (Mills 89p) White missed penalty 56

Att 70

Entry £5

Programme FREE

Tea £1

Bacon Cheeseburger £2

Horndean is a small village around 8 miles north of Portsmouth. Its claim to fame is it’s where Gales Ales used to be produced, before the brewery was bought by Fullers and closed.

5 Heads Park is to be found the north of the village, a nearby pub, The Colonial, is the site of the village’s long since closed workhouse. On entering the ground I immediately felt a sense of Oxford United’s former home, The Manor Ground, the pitch slopes in exactly the same way, from bottom left to top right! I was given a programme, or rather a shell, for free as the match inserts hadn’t turned up. A few days later, I’m now in possession of the missing insert, Continue reading →

Perspectives

01 Thursday Dec 2011

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Tuesday 29th November 2011 ko 7.45pm

Wessex League Premier Division

LAVERSTOCK & FORD 1 (Wykes 58)

WINCHESTER CITY 4 (Smeeton 54 Allen 74 81 Dunford 82)

Att c50

Entry £5

Programme £1

The small town of Laverstock lies on the River Bourne, a mile opposite the city of Salisbury. Although it predates it more famous neighbour, its clear that the city has completely dwarfed this rural settlement.

The Dell lies in Church Road, and reveals both the club’s ambitions and limitations. Its at one corner of a large area of common land, and as late as 2004 the club were playing in the Hampshire League, on a roped off pitch. The pitch has now been rotated through 90 degrees leaving a large net previously behind a goal rather redundant. A homeowner behind has hung bird-feeders on it! The club are rather proud of what they’ve done to the ground, with the lights, 100-plus seats, and hard standing on all 4 sides. The two quirky bits are the fact that the seats are via two prefabricated stands set across one corner, and the burger bar, built as a block with the dugouts at the half way line. Neither are ideal but still do their respective jobs. The club are pleased to have made it this far, and maintained their status. Continue reading →