Oakwood 0 Hailsham Town 7, Southern Combination Football League Division One, Saturday 16 th November 2019 The inclement weather has become something of a recurring theme in this blog over the past five or six weeks. So, to cut a long (and frankly rather repetitive) story short, it’s still raining. And it’s still playing havoc with my groundhopping plans! In a rare fit of decisiveness, I'd actually decided fairly on Monday that my match for this weekend would be Roffey vs Mile Oak in the SCFL Division One. After a relatively dry start to the week (especially by recent standards) I was confident that all was looking good for this weekend. Then, on Friday afternoon, it started raining. Hard. By Friday evening, Roffey had announced that there would be a pitch inspection at 9am on Saturday morning. After checking the club’s Twitter feed at 11am whilst coaching at 5Ways Soccer in Brighton, there was still no news. It was obviously one heck of an intense pitch in...
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