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Groundhopping away from home

Bootle FC 3 Charnock Richard 1, NWCFL Premier Division, 21 st August 2018 When, a few months ago, the parents of the Withdean Youth team that I had coached for the past eight years clubbed together to buy me a tour of Anfield, my wife viewed this as a great opportunity to take a few days away with the kids during the summer holidays. What she hadn’t banked on back then was my new hobby of Non-League groundhopping. Therefore, with the tour booked, and our dates away confirmed, I started looking into possible matches that we could attend. You can probably imagine the better half’s excitement when I informed her of my plans. Surprisingly, however, she didn’t turn down my offer for her to tag along me and the kids. Following some half-hearted research (never been a strength if I’m honest), I noticed that North-West Counties Football League side Bootle FC were scheduled to be at home on the Tuesday evening that we were due to be in Liverpool. The name Bootle struck a chord ...

Sussex snow prompts sojourn to Seaford

Seaford Town 3 Midhurst and Easebourne 3, SCFL Division one, Saturday 2 nd February 2019 Over the last few days, I, like a large proportion of the British population I suspect, have become something of a weather watcher. As the week wore on, and it became increasingly clear that snow was likely to meddle with the weekend's local nonleague football schedule, I began trying to pinpoint areas in Sussex where games were likely to go ahead. Just in case my first-choice game of Arundel vs Pagham were to fall foul of the conditions. Which ultimately it did. Now, 20 years ago or so, if I'd wanted to keep track of what the weather was supposedly going to be like, I’d probably turn the TV on to see what the highly trained meteorological experts giving the forecasts were saying. You know, Ulrika Johnson, Denise Van Outen… people like that. But times have changed. These days I no longer bother listening to the ‘experts’. Instead I do what most other sane British people do....

Here we go again – 2020/21 SCFL season predictions

After last year’s highly successful SCFL season predictions , in which not one prediction I made ultimately proved to be wrong, I’ve decided to give it another bash this year. Of course, the March abandonment of the league (along with normal life, in general) technically means that I didn’t get anything right either… but I’ve always been a glass-half-full kind of guy. In fairness, at the time of the season being declared null and void, I would say that about half of my predictions had looked like being on - or at least close to - the money, while half I couldn’t have got more wrong if I’d tried. With all the wholesale changes made to some SCFL squads since March, and the uncertainty surrounding practically everything at the moment, I’d be amazed if this season’s predictions bear any resemblance to what will actually transpire. So, for those I tip for a season of glory, please accept my apologies in advance for providing you with what will most likely be the unwelcome kiss ...

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