tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18642255907986306252024-03-19T08:48:17.697+00:00Steve B the GroundhopperWatching lower league football across the UK ... and occasionally beyondSteve Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08811106495528675405noreply@blogger.comBlogger1759125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864225590798630625.post-28738233656134383772024-03-17T16:17:00.001+00:002024-03-17T16:18:19.368+00:00Stanley v FC Romania<p><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2pm 16 March </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Perthshire Amateur League, Division Two</b><br /><b>Stanley 7 FC Romania 2 (att 30)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">My options for a second game after Luncarty were already limited even before weather-related postponements and venue changes. Luckily though my first choice match survived.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Stanley is just a five-minute drive from Luncarty. The football team uses a grass pitch that doubles as the playing field of the village primary school. The surface was heavy but playable.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The home side had an impressive 11 wins and a draw from their dozen league games prior to taking on mid-table FC Romania. The eventual outcome was, as expected, a resounding Stanley win, but they didn't have it all their own way.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">In the first half Romania twice had the lead, but on both occasions Stanley hit back to equalise. It took until close to half time before the home side finally edged in front.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">There still appeared little between the sides early in the second half until a penalty, harshly awarded for handball, allowed Stanley to go 4-2 up.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">That goal ended the visitors' resistance and helped Stanley to hit their stride. 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">11.15am 16 March </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>East of Scotland League, Premier Division</b><br /><b>Luncarty 5 Crossgates Primrose 3 (att 386)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Having stayed in Cumbernauld on Friday night I had an easy journey to reach Luncarty, a few miles north of Perth, in time for the organised groundhop's Saturday morning fixture.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Luncarty was the only one of the hop's six matches on a ground I needed. Having driven past Brownlands Park several times previously it was good to finally see a game there.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Perimeter fencing along the road side makes the venue more enclosed than it was the last time I saw it. It's a three-sided ground, with the far end out of bounds for spectators.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">All the facilities are behind the goal at the near end. The clubhouse, changing rooms, a food and drink kiosk and a small covered standing area are all on a plateau above the pitch.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Morning hop games, in front of larger than normal crowds, can be subdued affairs. This was anything but, with the tone set early on by Crossgates taking a second minute lead.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Luncarty equalised after 20 minutes. Then, in a bizarre spell of about five minutes, Crossgates retook the lead, the home side equalised for a second time, and then they went in front. A penalty for Luncarty extended their advantage to 4-2 by half time.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Both teams tightened up defensively in the second half, but we still had more goals. 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Saturday Morning Amateur League, Division 1B</b><br /><b>Greengairs 1 Muirend 3 (att 10)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Saturday morning football on a Friday night, which suited me as I was heading north ahead of a Saturday morning 'groundhop' game near Perth and wanted a match on the way.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Greengairs is a village in Lanarkshire, between Airdrie and Cumbernauld. They headed to the latter's Greenfaulds High School to stage this fixture. It's a typical 3G pitch, floodlit and enclosed by a high fence.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Both teams have been struggling this season and it showed. For much of the 90 minutes the play was frantic, with a lack of composure when chances, or half-chances, came.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">There was little between the sides, but Greengairs broke the deadlock in the final minute of the first half.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The second period ultimately belonged to the visitors, but the game didn't swing into their favour until the closing stages. They equalised after 58 minutes, then had to withstand pressure as the final whistle approached.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">A string of Greengairs corners had Muirend on the back foot, but they defended them well and looked to have secured a point. Then with a minute left they hit on the break to go in front.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Stoppage time became bad-tempered, and beyond the 90th minute the visitors added a third goal. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe height="480" src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/embed?mid=1lBkXyqIXmKTT1SP6ENgJl0wdwY3mzI4&ehbc=2E312F&noprof=1" width="640"></iframe></div>Steve Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08811106495528675405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864225590798630625.post-61092412942382471402024-03-09T21:48:00.001+00:002024-03-11T16:01:53.270+00:00Govan and University of Manchester v Royton Town<p><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">1.30pm 9 March </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Manchester League, Premier Division</b><br /><b>Govan and University of Manchester 0 Royton Town 1 (att 17)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">I can be tricky keeping track of which grounds I've been to and when and where I might need to return for a new pitch. I thought I'd visited Govan's base until I read a fellow hopper's report of a match there before Christmas.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Govan, who played as Govan Athletic before joining forces with the students, play on an artificial pitch at the university's Armitage sports centre. Having seen <a href="https://stevebthegroundhopper.blogspot.com/2017/11/university-of-manchester-v-university.html">a university game there in 2017</a> I assumed it'd be the same pitch, but it turns out it's not.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Govan and University of Manchester play their Manchester League games on 'pitch A', which is close to the entrance and at the opposite end of the complex from where I saw my previous match.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">It's not a bad venue for a 3G. There's a spectator area the full length of one side, with nothing in the way to restrict the view. If you're prepared to watch through the fence there's also the option of sitting or standing on an open terrace at one end. Dugouts, along with all the spare sets of goals, are out of the way on the far side.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The home team went into this game second in the table, but any hopes of gaining ground on leaders Uppermill were diminished when Royton got the only goal about 20 minutes into the second half.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">It was a game of few clear chances for either side. 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Manchester Saturday Morning League</b><br /><b>Salford Victoria Tigers 9 Fielden Park 0 (att 3)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">I needed to stay close to home so it was an ideal day to tick off a new venue that has appeared in the Manchester Saturday Morning League.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Less ideal was going to a barren and windswept school playing field on a morning when a bitterly cold wind was blowing across it. Still, at least an unusually dry few days meant little danger of a postponement.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Salford Victoria Tigers are effectively a morning offshoot of Salford Victoria FC who play in the Lancashire and Cheshire Amateur League. Unlike their afternoon side, Tigers are based at St Ambrose Barlow RC High School in Swinton.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">There is a caged 3G pitch but that was staging youth games, while the adult players had use of a grass surface on the main playing field. The pitch markings were a colourful blue, presumably to help them stand out from some other markings across part of the playing area.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Fielden Park are bottom of the league, and on the evidence of this game have little chance of climbing higher. It's possible they were short of some regular players, especially with Manchester United playing at Old Trafford at lunchtime, but they were thoroughly outplayed.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Their keeper made some decent saves to keep the score to single figures. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe height="480" src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/embed?mid=1XC5V-_Pe8dgmp7qNVPn55Yen8ZSRqMQ&ehbc=2E312F&noprof=1" width="640"></iframe></div>Steve Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08811106495528675405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864225590798630625.post-61857597277537602402024-03-03T13:04:00.000+00:002024-03-03T13:04:00.153+00:00Rathfriland Rangers v PSNI<p><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">3pm 2 March </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Northern Ireland Football League, Premier Intermediate League</b><br /><b>Rathfriland Rangers 3 Police Service of Northern Ireland 0 (att 100)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Having completed the three divisions of Northern Ireland's national league previously I'm at the stage where trips are required now and again to visit any new clubs and new grounds.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Rathfriland are in their debut season at this level, and their Iveagh Park home was the last remaining venue I needed to top up the set, at least until the start of next season.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">It's a good set up. As you'd expect it's fully enclosed, but it's also floodlit and has a large seated stand and a decent clubhouse. With plenty of support, Rathfriland feels like a club on the up.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">PSNI on the other hand feels like a team in decline. They went into this game bottom of the league, and their hopes of avoiding a second consecutive last placed finish took a dive when they conceded in the opening seconds.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Having scored with the game's first attack, it surprisingly took the home side until close to half time before they doubled their lead, courtesy of an unfortunate own goal.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Rathfriland's lead became 3-0 early in the second half. Their advantage would have reached 4-0 had a penalty, about 10 minutes from time, not been saved.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">But the miss didn't matter as they saw out the game comfortably. 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Ballymena Saturday Morning League, Division Two</b><br /><b>Cullybackey Blues 2 Randalstown 4 (att 18)</b></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">Another early morning flight into Belfast International Airport, from where it's a fairly easy task, in a hire car, to reach a game in the Ballymena Saturday Morning League.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">Ahead of this I had four venues left to visit in the three division league. Despite a reduced fixture list there were games on all of them.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">The other three are all multi-pitch venues in Ballymena itself, each used by more than one club. But Cullybackey Blues are one of the league's village teams, and with a home ground of their own.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">Tobar Park is an enclosed pitch behind a community centre building that contains the changing rooms. The playing area is enclosed by a post and rail barrier and there's a pair of dugouts. There are even floodlights although, assuming they work, they'd only be suitable for training.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">Cullybackey made the brighter start and it didn't take them long to score the opening goal. But Randalstown got themselves back into the game, and a neat finish on the end of a long ball was a deserved equaliser.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">The visitors are bottom of the division, but that may be a false position as they have games in hand over those, including Cullybackey, who are just above them. Having drawn level the game began to swing in their favour.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">They took a 2-1 lead into half time, and that became 3-1 in the second half. After the third goal Randalstown's most vocal player warned his teammates that Cullybackey weren't beaten and would keep going to the end.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">He was correct. A spell of sustained pressure resulted in a goal for 2-3, and at that stage a Cullybackey equaliser looked likely. 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>North Wales Coast East League, Premier Division</b><br /><b>Abergele 1 Llansannan 1 (att 27)</b></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">I had planned to be watching football in Scotland but with my car unexpectedly off the road I needed a new itinerary. It had to be somewhere easy to reach on public transport and that was unlikely to fall victim to the weather.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">An artificial pitch at Eirias Park in Colwyn Bay fitted the bill perfectly. It's the current home of Abergele FC, who have had to move a few miles from their own town since <a href="http://stevebthegroundhopper.blogspot.com/2022/08/abergele-v-penrhyn-bay.html">I visited them early last season.</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">The ground probably ticks the relevant ground grading boxes, but as a basic caged pitch it's not a great place to watch a game. Spectators are restricted to one touchline, but even from there the viewing is impaired by small-sided goals, substitutes and coaches.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">Having won promotion last season, Abergele are finding the higher division a tough challenge. This draw could prove an important point in their battle to avoid relegation, but they’ll have been frustrated not have won. Llansannan only earned their share of the spoils with a stoppage time equaliser.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">The home side had gone ahead thanks to a well taken goal after 20 minutes. Llansannan's hopes took a knock when they lost their goalkeeper to injury just before half time, but Abergele rarely tested his stand-in as they tried to protect their slender lead.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">They were hanging on by the time the 90th minute arrived, and it was no surprise when the visitors eventually equalised. 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2.40pm 21 February </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>BUCS, South Eastern 4D</b><br /><b>City University of London 3 Brunel University II 2 (att 10)</b></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">An overnight stop on our journey home from Paris allowed me time to take in a midweek afternoon game in the capital using public transport.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">Given the wet weather an artificial pitch was the safest bet, and with a scheduled start time of 2.15pm a visit to Salisbury Hall Playing Fields, in Walthamstow, was the most convenient.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">University football, especially in the lower divisions, can be a mixed bag. It's always a relief to arrive at a venue and find players warming up for a match. On this occasion the one person missing was the referee.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">Thankfully everyone was keen to play, and after a 25 minute delay the game eventually kicked off with someone from City University in charge. He admitted, in a brief chat at half time, to being a reluctant volunteer. I for one was grateful to him for ensuring there was a game to watch.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">His team will have been grateful too, as they ended the afternoon with three points. Not that the referee played any underhand role in their win, secured thanks to penalty that was correctly awarded.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">It was the third time City had gone ahead. They opened the scoring early but Brunel responded with the game's best goal. The home side went back in front before half time, but the visitors levelled again just two minutes after the break.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">The match was finely poised until City's spot kick was converted to decide the outcome.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">The 3G pitch at Salisbury Hall is a typical example of its type, being floodlit and enclosed by a high fence. There's a small spectator area running half the length of one side. 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">6pm 17 February </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>France, Championnat National 3, Group H</b><br /><b>Montrouge FC 92 3 CA Vitry 0 (att 200)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Football wasn’t the motivation for a five night break in Paris. Had it been I wouldn’t have picked a weekend when the city’s teams who play in France’s top three divisions, PSG, Paris FC, Red Star and Versailles, were all away.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">I chose this fifth tier fixture as the venue, Stade Jean Lezer, was a short and simple Metro ride from our Montparnasse hotel.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">It’s an artificial pitch with an elevated seated stand, underneath which are changing rooms, a clubhouse and a snack bar. The rest of the perimeter is flat paved standing, with just a small grassed area behind the dugouts on the far side.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">With the sides filling two of the bottom three places in the league my expectations for the game were low. But with, surprisingly, no charge for admission at least I’d have no complaints about value for money.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">It turned out to be a thoroughly absorbing game. There was little between the sides until a 31st minute direct free kick found the bottom corner beyond the diving goalkeeper. The keeper sustained an injury in his attempt to keep the ball out and took no further part in the game.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Vitry came close to an equaliser when a shot hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced close to the goal-line, but not over it. There were no more first half goals.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">In the second period Vitry continued to look more likely to score, while Montrouge defended and attempted to hit on the break. The game’s second goal would be crucial.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The home side go it, after 65 mins, and a third quickly followed to knock the stuffing out of Vitry. After that the away side never looked capable of recovering the game. Their evening got worse with a stoppage time red card for a reckless challenge.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The result wasn’t enough to lift Montrouge off the bottom of the league, but it keeps them in touch with the teams, including Vitry, who are just above them.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguAYLy7OoYH1dshZboJolaRS46E2NcUfqAm4ocUoWpxFWvUoKgUkYNK0VkD-KCPsdDyE8A7V5N0BAjl4T2XJ34A8b5P-hxkGiEswR86Jn9uYXdby2VfFlIADjeFiMzaYWJBlf9pfVAPXt0L3ShuGqYJVHPZhwUkTJKT-mCXT0ZK7g7-U-qvHoJSAQv8YE/s1360/IMG_7260.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="1360" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguAYLy7OoYH1dshZboJolaRS46E2NcUfqAm4ocUoWpxFWvUoKgUkYNK0VkD-KCPsdDyE8A7V5N0BAjl4T2XJ34A8b5P-hxkGiEswR86Jn9uYXdby2VfFlIADjeFiMzaYWJBlf9pfVAPXt0L3ShuGqYJVHPZhwUkTJKT-mCXT0ZK7g7-U-qvHoJSAQv8YE/w640-h480/IMG_7260.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe height="480" src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/embed?mid=1C6Dl9oPIprpAMfyRVcTU4B2P9cjDBXQ&ehbc=2E312F&noprof=1" width="640"></iframe></div>Steve Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08811106495528675405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864225590798630625.post-83588445190073782422024-02-11T11:35:00.003+00:002024-02-11T11:36:23.906+00:00Giffnock SC v East Kilbride Thistle<p><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2.30pm 10 February </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>West of Scotland League, Division Four</b><br /><b>Giffnock Soccer Centre 5 East Kilbride Thistle 5 (att 65)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">A 3G pitch with a spectator area running the length of one touchline may not be the most exciting of grounds to visit, but that barely matters when you get to watch a game as enthralling as this.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">I've seen a handful of 5-5 draws previously, and obviously such games are never dull. But what stood this encounter apart from others was the quality of the football, or at least the finishing.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Giffnock opened the scoring, which would be the only time they were ahead in the match. Their advantage didn't last long, and neither did parity as East Kilbride quickly went from 1-0 down to 2-1 up.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The home side were back level inside 25 minutes, before the visitors went 3-2 up just before half time.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The goals continued to flow in the second period. Giffnock levelled again, but looked to be heading for defeat when two goals in five minutes, the first a penalty, gave East Kilbride a 5-3 lead with just 10 minutes left.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">But the next turning point was an 83rd minute Giffnock penalty, awarded after a goal-line handball prevented a certain goal. It was scored to make the score 5-4 and East Kilbride were reduced to 10 men when the offender was sent off.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">With a numerical advantage, and after what had gone before, it was no surprise that just three minutes later Giffnock scored again to earn a point. Both teams could have won it in the final moments, but there were no more goals.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Giffnock's West of Scotland League team play at Eastwood Park. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe height="480" src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/embed?mid=1WAmUxaq9DsC4vyQcUTxvv0xStNSDvT0&ehbc=2E312F&noprof=1" width="640"></iframe></div>Steve Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08811106495528675405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864225590798630625.post-84429134547299354492024-02-11T10:51:00.002+00:002024-02-11T10:52:16.899+00:00Blackthorn Rovers v Dinamo Paisley<p><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">10am 10 February </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Saturday Morning Amateur League, Premier Division</b><br /><b>Blackthorn Rovers 1 Dinamo Paisley 3 (att 20)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Having stayed overnight after Friday evening's game at Drumchapel I decided to begin Saturday by visiting a venue that's challenging to reach in time for a morning kick off from Manchester.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Blackthorn Rovers have moved since <a href="https://stevebthegroundhopper.blogspot.com/2020/01/blackthorn-rovers-v-uddingston.html">I saw them at Battery Park in Greenock in 2020</a>, and now play a short distance away in neighbouring Gourock. It's a floodlit 3G pitch at Gourock Park, with plenty of space for spectators to stand inside the fence.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Dinamo Paisley looked the sharper side from the start and were ahead early. Their lead remained at 1-0 by half time, but they doubled their advantage after around an hour.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">In a feisty game, that at times threatened to become bad-tempered, a third away goal eventually settled the outcome. 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">7pm 9 February </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>West of Scotland League, Division One</b><br /><b>Drumchapel United 3 Petershill 4 (att 160)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The chance to tick off one of my remaining West of Scotland League grounds on a Friday night was too tempting to miss. However a cold, wet and windswept night wasn't the best time to visit Drumchapel United.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Their home ground, an artificial pitch at the Donald Dewar Centre, lacks protection from the elements. There are spectator areas along both touchlines, but it's a basic venue for the seventh level of Scottish football.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">I believe there are plans for improvements, and they seem to be doing a good job of generating support from the local community. Visitors Petershill were top of the league, but most of those watching were supporting the home team.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">They'll have left disappointed with the outcome, but must have enjoyed what was a very entertaining game, especially in the second half.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">All seven goals came after the break. Petershill had looked the more likely to score in a goalless first half, and went ahead thanks to a fine goal 10 minutes into the second period.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The home side equalised after 72 minutes, but their joy didn't last long. Just three minutes later Petershill regained the lead. The scoring wasn't over though, as an 87th minute Drumchapel penalty levelled the scores again.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">This time the parity was even shorter-lived. Petershill went down the other end and made it 3-2. In the final minute the visitors went 4-2 up, only for Drumchapel's hopes to be rekindled, just briefly, when they got a goal back in stoppage time.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">It was a breathless end to an enjoyable and high quality game, and one that was good enough to take my mind off the weather.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzAVCbGSTemAOT4Dj-pz6BLjYj3G3nFRJuDtghe9UsN88pUi8Y5Ovx91jnWYJedNyMe_QsKfdhakSUI7g-7J8pBOEDHUWR3cDpIVToszPiTrF_AewP-djo2KEfex7WkQDpf9j2bvnauswplD9Zy_K_9TNgqvpLhXF-tk6pYLhQ-ApWUgJuIG1mMAe0BmA/s1323/IMG_7138.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="991" data-original-width="1323" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzAVCbGSTemAOT4Dj-pz6BLjYj3G3nFRJuDtghe9UsN88pUi8Y5Ovx91jnWYJedNyMe_QsKfdhakSUI7g-7J8pBOEDHUWR3cDpIVToszPiTrF_AewP-djo2KEfex7WkQDpf9j2bvnauswplD9Zy_K_9TNgqvpLhXF-tk6pYLhQ-ApWUgJuIG1mMAe0BmA/w640-h480/IMG_7138.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe height="480" src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/embed?mid=1JmgJwZnWp63CuS9sPdyHP0SprpygWkY&ehbc=2E312F&noprof=1" width="640"></iframe></div>Steve Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08811106495528675405noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864225590798630625.post-5409874020536754202024-02-05T22:52:00.003+00:002024-02-06T09:53:49.669+00:00UCFB (Manchester) v University of Chester<p><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">6pm 5 February </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>BUCS, Northern 2A</b><br /><b>University Campus of Football Business (Manchester) 4 University of Chester 1 (att 32)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The National Speedway Stadium in Belle Vue, Manchester, is an occasional football venue. However, this was a rare opportunity to see it used for a competitive first team fixture.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">How competitive university and colleges sport actually is can be variable, but at higher levels the games are generally watchable and this was no exception.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">UCFB operates from Manchester and London, and has football teams based in both. The Manchester-based first team usually play home fixtures at the city's regional athletics centre, so this game was a bit of a one off.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">It's certainly an impressive arena. There are huge stands on either side of the pitch, although just the seated side was open for the handful of spectators.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">UCFB ran out comfortable winners. They opened the scoring about midway through the first half, then recovered well after conceding an equaliser at the start of the second.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Two goals in quick succession, after an hour, turned the game decisively in their favour, before a late fourth rounded off the scoring.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBxexfwOXSSA-ao8noQm5dMuUCxvxiMq0zRZkgc30MYj2QU0Hsb9p4VvsyJnvy2s0itsUSzAKaspjV0rgnFiUOVanKHrNX9lDiyaXLJ3LT7vizbGt0ebrwqzzZWxDwRP5r8OdCe278gpYob1ImvRbtBknM0cZ3qbg-h-HXR0GW_eUy0OK_icas33NjNF0/s1334/IMG_7096.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1003" data-original-width="1334" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBxexfwOXSSA-ao8noQm5dMuUCxvxiMq0zRZkgc30MYj2QU0Hsb9p4VvsyJnvy2s0itsUSzAKaspjV0rgnFiUOVanKHrNX9lDiyaXLJ3LT7vizbGt0ebrwqzzZWxDwRP5r8OdCe278gpYob1ImvRbtBknM0cZ3qbg-h-HXR0GW_eUy0OK_icas33NjNF0/w640-h482/IMG_7096.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Nottinghamshire Senior League, Premier Division</b><br /><b>Beeston 3 Radcliffe Olympic 0 (att 26)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">I'd almost forgotten that <a href="https://stevebthegroundhopper.blogspot.com/2016/04/beeston-v-underwood-villa.html">back in 2016</a> I'd seen Beeston at their former ground. At that time their move was imminent, and in the years since they've settled into their new home at Trent Vale Road.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">It's the former Plessey sports ground, and has a smart new-looking pavilion close to the main football pitch. The playing area is enclosed by metal barriers on one side and roped off around much of the rest of the perimeter.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Beeston FC have lots of junior and adult teams, and the ground provides plenty of space, and pitches, to accommodate them.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Their first team won promotion last season, and are now safely mid table in the Nottinghamshire Senior League's top division. They easily saw off bottom side Radcliffe Olympic.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The away side are by no means adrift at the foot of the table, and they started the game well. 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">10.30am 3 February </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Sheffield and District Fair Play League, Division Three</b><br /><b>Dronfield 0 Byron House 5 (att 3)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Dronfield are new to the Sheffield Fair Play League this season, but seem ambitious having already announced plans to add a Saturday afternoon side in the County Senior League.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Their morning side are currently mid-table in division three, but were well beaten by a team who went into this fixture on the same number of points.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">It took until the second half before the game truly got away from Dronfield. Byron House had the better of the first half, and deserved their single goal lead at the break.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">On the sloping pitch, the visitors played down hill in the second half and doubled their lead just a couple of minutes after the restart. As the half went on Dronfield's attacking threat diminished while their keeper was kept busy.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">A third Byron House goal was no surprise, and two more in the closing minutes underlined their superiority.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Dronfield's home ground is Olive Grove, a sports ground close to Sheffield United's Bramall Lane stadium. The Futbology app lists it as the Sheffield Works Department Sports and Social Club, which reveals its likely origin.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The main football pitch, which runs adjacent to Heeley Bank Road, has a couple of dugouts.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZpQ81IicVIdHCFh1dIj8ebR6uZwEMM4X4wgvsGzou1GnB5Mo2rlDs2NkldSN4lqB1Y5w4IotityR9x79tSSGWvMijaHE8TVmFq_Ma3Uv4TDuN-OsUzY_7kIqrA-J8aKYnSn2UOOMzUzJVuFBdNBkrm-K5aejutTbC4ZQLi3M4SfLfIe8wq_zsHuPQSg/s1333/IMG_7016.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1005" data-original-width="1333" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZpQ81IicVIdHCFh1dIj8ebR6uZwEMM4X4wgvsGzou1GnB5Mo2rlDs2NkldSN4lqB1Y5w4IotityR9x79tSSGWvMijaHE8TVmFq_Ma3Uv4TDuN-OsUzY_7kIqrA-J8aKYnSn2UOOMzUzJVuFBdNBkrm-K5aejutTbC4ZQLi3M4SfLfIe8wq_zsHuPQSg/w640-h482/IMG_7016.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">7.45pm 30 January </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Midland Football League, Division One</b><br /><b>Allscott Heath 2 Heather St John's 1 (att 85)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">It's a rare treat to be able to visit a new ground for a floodlit game after a full day at work, and even rarer to do so after a relaxed and trouble-free rush hour journey.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Floodlights are a recent addition to Allscott Heath Sports Club, a necessity since the club's elevation to step six of the footballing pyramid, in the second tier of the Midland Football League.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">By all accounts the ground, in the village of Allscott near Telford, has been transformed in recent years from what was little more than an open pitch. It's now fully enclosed, with a small seated stand on one side and a covered area for spectators opposite.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Progress looks to be being maintained on the pitch as well as off it, with this deserved win keeping Allscott Heath in the running for another promotion.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">A goal in each half set the home side up for a comfortable win, although a late penalty kept Leicestershire-based Heather in with a chance of a point up until the final whistle.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv-8lqMUwKeDJhwHnFjD2hklqNt4xTgoreJa3xav1sNwq2nBJlyVBOt-nQktzuVfCS8XbR2TxnygqMwYgG3QKOV-9sQURz-BXzNdi9vzfdOm23mYYjoGRguJ42-PQSLehfqtmAlELJKIEw0Zp22DngjtrKutnG5nddzwAQfDGkLPh47hQeKWXDCd0zUHA/s1355/IMG_6922.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2pm 27 January </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>South of Scotland League</b><br /><b>Lochar Thistle 3 Stranraer reserves 1 (att 40)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">One of those days when I was eventually glad just to see a game on a new ground. I was already onto plan B by the time I left home, only to find no sign that my intended Manchester Saturday Morning League fixture was going to take place.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">A result has since appeared, so it must have been played somewhere, but I'd decided to instead head north and visit my last remaining venue to recomplete the South of Scotland League.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Lochar Thistle have moved since <a href="https://stevebthegroundhopper.blogspot.com/2019/11/lochar-thistle-v-bonnyton-thistle.html">my November 2019 visit</a> to a 3G pitch at the North West Community Campus. They're now at Wilson Park, on the outskirts of Dumfries at Heathhall.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Unlike their last home this is a proper football ground, with an enclosed grass pitch and changing rooms in an adjacent pavilion that also houses a snack bar.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Spectator access is limited to half of one side, where there's also a handy grass bank, and at one end. Plenty of space for the size of crowd at this game, but it'd be a squeeze against well-supported visitors.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Stranraer fans will presumably have been watching their first team lose at home to East Fife rather than trekking east along the A75 to see a youthful reserve side defeated by Lochar.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The home side had a 20th minute penalty saved before eventually going ahead with the first half's only goal. 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">3pm 20 January </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Wessex League, Premier Division</b><br /><b>AFC Stoneham 7 Blackfield and Langley 0 (att 128)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">This wasn't my intended afternoon destination but once I had the unsurprising news that my planned game, on a grass pitch in west London, was postponed I sought the sanctuary of another artificial surface.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">An overdue visit to the Stoneham Lane Football Complex in Eastleigh, home of AFC Stoneham, also allowed me to recomplete the Wessex League for the first time in a number of years.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">There's a trio of 3G pitches at the complex, and the other two were busy with what looked to be a junior tournament. The 'stadium pitch' has spectator access around all four sides and a low seated stand.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">AFC Stoneham went into this game top of the league, and had no problems staying there after the easiest of afternoons.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The first time a Blackfield player touched the ball was when they restarted play after going a goal down in opening seconds. Stoneham dominated possession and had doubled their lead by half time.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">In the second half the home side continued to dominate but also speeded up their play. Blackfield had no answer and goals flowed at regular intervals. An own goal in stoppage time completed the rout.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">It's not that the visitors were especially poor but more that AFC Stoneham were very good. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe height="480" src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/embed?mid=1nB53W4liLMyftXerQ8wk0EnuxDSs5VQ&ehbc=2E312F&noprof=1" width="640"></iframe></div>Steve Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08811106495528675405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864225590798630625.post-42117863067399662732024-01-21T11:06:00.001+00:002024-01-31T19:15:31.213+00:00Old Albanians v Old Aldenhamians<p><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">10.30am 20 January </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Arthurian League, Division Two</b><br /><b>Old Albanians 2 Old Aldenhamians 1 (att 6)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">It's been a while since I last watched an Arthurian League fixture. The regular mix of morning and lunchtime kick offs are handy for extra games, and grounds, on Saturdays.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The early start needed to get to St Albans in time for this third tier match was rewarded with an entertaining game. And on a day when grass pitches were vulnerable to frost, the 3G surface at Beaumont School was reliable.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">It's a good set up, with a pair of dugouts on the far side and a spectator area on the near side. The only annoyance was a cable across the pitch, used to divide it for small-sided games, which interrupted the action whenever it was hit by the ball.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">All the goals were in the second half. The home side's opener was well taken about 10 minutes after the break. Their decisive second goal, into the top corner from distance and an angle, was either sublime skill or outrageous fortune.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Aldenhamians pulled a goal back in the final minute, and a stoppage time red card for Albanians made for a tense finish, but there were no more goals. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe height="480" src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/embed?mid=16kfsq8fp1tD36gGMJhGBckOwoTtvxmI&ehbc=2E312F&noprof=1" width="640"></iframe></div>Steve Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08811106495528675405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864225590798630625.post-1120286284553325922024-01-14T15:04:00.000+00:002024-01-31T19:16:01.120+00:00Generation Next v Winchcombe Town<p><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">4.15pm 13 January </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Cheltenham League, Premier Division</b><br /><b>Generation Next 1 Winchcombe Town 3 (att 17)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">My third and final game of a busy day's groundhopping was at the Oxstalls Sports Park in Gloucester, about 20 minutes drive from Tewkesbury.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">It's an impressive venue, with various facilities including a 3G football pitch that's a home ground for Generation Next. Their home fixtures are regularly scheduled for 4.15pm.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">These were two well matched teams who provided an entertaining game. Winchcombe Town, second in the league and presumably eyeing promotion back to the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League, had the edge thanks mainly to better finishing.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Two first half goals set them up for the win, although their lead always looked like it might be vulnerable if Generation Next could pull one back.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Eventually a third Winchcombe goal put them out of sight, although a late home goal kept things interesting up to the final whistle. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe height="480" src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/embed?mid=1ziK0tIrvdu7qsgzbP0ZUJbE3ZIAMI74&ehbc=2E312F&noprof=1" width="640"></iframe></div>Steve Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08811106495528675405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864225590798630625.post-35271291816925708562024-01-14T13:16:00.002+00:002024-01-31T19:16:48.321+00:00Tewkesbury Town v English Bicknor<p><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2pm 13 January </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Gloucestershire Northern Senior League, Division One</b><br /><b>Tewkesbury Town 5 English Bicknor 1 (att 40)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">From Tewkesbury School I had to drive barely a mile to reach Northway Playing Field, home of Tewkesbury Town FC.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The two divisions of the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League include clubs with home grounds that range from the very good to the more basic. This is among the latter, but it's perfectly adequate for the level of football, and it's a league I enjoy watching.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Part of one side of the pitch was roped off, and it was good to see a decent turnout of local supporters.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The Tewkesbury fans will have enjoyed their afternoon, but they had to come from behind to claim all three points.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">English Bicknor, who have been relegated and relocated since <a href="https://stevebthegroundhopper.blogspot.com/2022/04/english-bicknor-v-quedgeley-wanderers.html">I visited them in April 2022</a>, are struggling at the foot of the table. But they belied their league position with a bright start that saw them take the lead.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The home side responded well. They played some neat football on a tricky pitch and were soon level. 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Cheltenham League, Division One</b><br /><b>Cheltenham United 2 Bishops Cleeve B 2 (att 6)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">My first experience of the Cheltenham League. I'd been tempted by this lunchtime kick off, along with a late afternoon fixture and the chance to squeeze another game in between the two. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">There was a delayed start, presumably caused by the lack of a referee. The teams sensibly agreed that each would provide someone to officiate, with the home side in charge of the first half and Bishops Cleeve the second. Ultimately that decision proved decisive.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Based on the league table I'd expected promotion-chasing Cheltenham United to win comfortably. They started well and it was no surprise when they took a deserved lead.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">But they failed to build on advantage, allowing the visitors to grow into the game, They equalised before half time and then shocked the hosts by going in front in the second half.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">They defended well before the home side's pressure finally paid off with an equaliser eight minutes from time. That looked to have set up an exciting finish, with Cheltenham seemingly odds on to get a late winner.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">But their hopes were thwarted when the second half referee - the Bishops Cleeve manager - blew for full time. According to my watch there were still five minutes left to play.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">I had another game to get to a 2pm, and after the late start I wasn't complaining about the early finish. But Cheltenham United were complaining, and with good reason.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Despite their name, Cheltenham United play in Tewkesbury. Their home ground is a 3G pitch at the town's school-cum-sports centre. It's a typical set up, but plus points are a pair a dugouts and recesses that allow spare goals to be stored away from the touchline. 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font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2pm 6 January </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Central Midlands Alliance League, Premier Division South</b><br /><b>Melbourne Dynamo 0 South Normanton Athletic 4 (att 75)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">This was third against second in the league and with South Normanton Athletic having applied for promotion, along with current leaders Pinxton, there was an extra dimension to the fixture.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Having expected a close encounter I was surprised at how comfortably the visitors won. Cheered on by an enthusiastic group of supporters, they were on top from the start.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Their half time lead was 1-0, and two second half goals in quick succession put them out of Melbourne's reach. A fourth goal, with virtually the final kick of the match, sealed an impressive win.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Melbourne Dynamo are playing their first season at this level. Despite this loss, they look like a club on the up. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The last time I watched them at home, pre-blog in April 2010, they played at a cricket ground in the nearby village of Ticknall. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe height="480" src="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/embed?mid=1fnyUiHqzhtJ3i1DiC0KkLkXShYsu910&ehbc=2E312F&noprof=1" width="640"></iframe></div>Steve Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08811106495528675405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1864225590798630625.post-43730859992273183932024-01-07T11:11:00.000+00:002024-02-04T12:06:45.789+00:00FC Wanderers v Railway<p><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">10.30am 6 January </b><b style="color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">2024</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>Sheffield and District Fair Play League, Division Two</b><br /><b>FC Wanderers 1 Railway 2 (att 9)</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">Another day when seeking out an artificial pitch was the best way to find a game with confidence it'd go ahead, at least for a morning kick off.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The 3G pitch at Sheffield's Concord Sports Centre looks well worn, but as a football venue it's better than the usual caged affair. There are paths for spectators along both touchlines, and the surrounding fence is set well back.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">As a neutral it was an enjoyable game to watch as well. FC Wanderers are at the foot of the Fair Play League's middle division, but they made sure visitors Railway had to work hard for their three points.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">The away side were little lucky to be awarded the first half penalty that put them in front, but Wanderers were level before half time.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #292929; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 20px;">In the second period it was a goalkeeping error that proved decisive, allowing Railway to score their winner. 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