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Hartley Wintney offers ideal stop-off spot

Hartley Wintney 1 Merthyr Town 1, Southern Premier League, 29 th September 2018 Okay, so I’m well aware that last week’s blog post may not have painted me in the greatest of lights. That I came across as something of a hopeless unromantic oaf. I know this due to the admonishing looks and angry shakes of the head that I’ve received from some of my wives’ friends in the school playground during pick-up time this week. Yet fear not. This weekend I made amends for the errors of last week. For on Friday night I took my wife for a romantic night away to watch a show. Kid free! Not that this meant there was to be no groundhopping this weekend. Oh no! On the other half’s suggestion – yes, really – we decided that on the way home on Saturday afternoon we would stop off and visit a ground that I wouldn’t usually be able to get to due to travel logistics. Now I like to think that this offer was one born out of her undying love for me, yet I strongly suspect it was more likely a...

Late free kick hands victory to Wick

Wick 1 Selsey 0, SCFL Division 1 Challenge Cup Quarter Final, Tuesday 19 th February 2019 I do love half-term weeks. I mean, don’t get me wrong, having to entertain the kids for a whole week is nothing short of a nightmare (not to mention expensive), and my work productivity definitely suffers when they’re around. But the school holidays also mean no football training for the eldest on Tuesday evening which gives me the ideal opportunity to sneak an extra groundhopping game in. Extra football and an escape from the nightly ‘fun’ ritual of having to put the kids to bed? It’s a win-win as far as I’m concerned. A quick glance at the local fixtures revealed that while I’d already visited most of the home teams playing on this particular Tuesday evening, there was one ground I hadn’t yet visited; Wick’s wonderfully named Crabtree Park. So instead of spending Tuesday evening standing in the cold on the side of a football pitch in Brighton watching my eldest train, I inste...

Twitter sends me to Horsham

Horsham YMCA 1 Tooting and Mitcham United 2, FA Cup First Qualifying Round, 8 th September 2018 Having missed out on attending an FA Vase match last week , there was simply no way that I was going to miss out on the First Qualifying Round of the FA Cup this week. Not that this would be the first FA Cup match that I’ve attended in the fledgling 2018/19 season. In fact, it would be the third. The first two matches formed part of the Extra Preliminary and Preliminary Rounds. Now quite what this actually means I’m not altogether sure. Why they couldn’t have just been Qualifying Rounds 1 and 2, and then today be Qualifying Round 3, I have simply no idea. I suppose a quick Google search would soon offer a reasonable explanation to this query but, as noted in a previous post on this blog, research isn’t my strong point. I didn’t like doing it when I was studying for my GCSEs or A-Levels, so I see no reason why I should start doing it as I draw ever closer to the big 4 0! Anyway...

Diary of a newfound groundhopper

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