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Friendship

20 Friday Jul 2018

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danmark, Denmark, Friends Arena, groundhopping, International, Programme, Solna, Stockholm, sverige, Sweden, World Cup

Saturday 2nd June 2018 ko 19.45

International Friendly

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Att 41,558 at Friends Arena, Solna

Entry 100 sek (approx £8.62)

Programme 20 sek*

When I was putting this year’s trip to Sweden together this fixture was an obvious one to consider. The time of arrival for Robyn, Sim, Adrian and I had been set in stone, and once Swedish Groundhop organiser Kim Hedwall offered to hire a car and collect us from the airport and drive us from there to Kristinebergs IP then to our hotel, and finally to Solna the cards rather fell into place.  Continue reading →

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The World Champions

18 Thursday Sep 2014

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1909, 1911, Thomas Lipton, West Auckland, World Cup

On the way back from Tow Law Town I decided to pause my trip home and stop to visit something than hadn’t been in situ when I paid West Auckland Town FC many moons ago.

West Auckland play in the Northern League Division One and in recent times have made a couple of appearances in the FA Vase final here and here, but they have a far more illustrious past than that. Continue reading →

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