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✔559 Salts Sports Association
Salts FC 0-1 Lower HoptonWest Riding County Amateur Premier DivisionSaturday 18th March 2017Saltaire is a Victorian model village built in 1851 by Sir Titus Salt, a leading industrialist in the...
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✔560 Langwith Road
Shirebrook Town 1-1 Eccleshill UnitedNorthern Counties East League Division OneSaturday 25th March 2017Shirebrook is a former mining town in the Bolsover district, on the north-east Derbyshire border...
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✓561 Old Shielfield
Tweedmouth Rangers 2-1 Burntisland ShipyardEast of Scotland LeagueSaturday 15th April 2017Tweedmouth RangersFounded in 2010North Northumberland League 2010-2016Division Two winners 2012-13Division One...
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Manc Treble
Monday 17th April 2017Although I've had this leg of the Easter Groundhop marked as a “must do” since it was announced over a year ago, it wasn’t until last weekend that I sorted out the logistics for...
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Around the Alliance - part eighteen
Just the one new ground ticked off and the first of this season’s cup finals in this latest edition of Around the Alliance. Grounsell Park was the venue for the Bay Plastics Combination Cup final, as...
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✓566 Gayfield Park
Arbroath 3-2 Elgin CitySPFL - League 2Saturday 29th April 2017Arbroath is a former royal burgh and the largest town in Angus, on the North Sea coast of Scotland. (population almost 24,000) As a town,...
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✔568. Humbug Park
Crossgates Primrose 1-3 Lochgelly AlbertEast Region - South DivisionSaturday 13th May 2017Crossgates is a former mining village in Fife, two miles east of Dunfermline. It takes its name from the...
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Around the Alliance - part nineteen
The last Around the Alliance feature for this season saw me complete the grounds needed to tick off the top two divisions. For both matches I travelled by car with Katie & Lee, with Katie taking...
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✔570 Wharf Lane Recreation Ground
Radcliffe Olympic 3-3 South Normanton AthleticEast Midlands Counties Premier LeagueWednesday 24th May 2017Radcliffe-on-Trent is a large village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of...
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✔571 Ainslie Park
Ronnie Swan Trophy - Day 1Spartans 1-0 Hearts XI (noon ko)Edinburgh City 1-1 Hibernian XI (3pm ko)Saturday 8th July 2017Unless you’re one of my dozen loyal readers, you’ll be surprised to learn I’ve...
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✔572 Craghead Millennium Field
Annfield Plain 1-4 WhickhamPre-Season FriendlyWednesday 12th July 2017Wearside League club Annfield Plain continued their pre-season programme with the first of two “home” fixtures, four miles from...
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✔573 Silksworth Sports Complex (3G pitch 1)
Silksworth CW 2-2 Easington CWPre-Season friendlyFriday 14th July 2017Another Wearside League using temporary accommodation this summer is Silksworth Colliery Welfare. The Community Association club...
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✖ Camp Municipal de Futbol
S.D. Portmany (Ibiza)SD Portmany were formed in 1923 and play in the Regional Preferente de Ibiza y Formentera, which is the fifth level of football in the Balearic Islands. I wasn’t expecting to see...
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Junior Kickstart
Friday 28th/Saturday 29th July 2017After a half-hearted launch into the new season, I finally kick-started the new campaign last weekend by visiting three Junior clubs in the West Region. The weekend...
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✔577 Recreation Ground
Alloa Athletic 1-1 Raith RoversScottish League OneSaturday 5th August 2017Alloa is a small town in Clackmannanshire on the north bank of the Firth of Forth, close to the foot of the Ochil Hills....
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✔578 Castle View Enterprise Academy
Hebburn Town Res. 2-1 Darlington Res.Total Sport Alan Hood Charity Cup - 1st RoundSaturday 12th August 2017Hebburn Town Reserves were the only new club elected to the Wearside League this season. The...
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✔579 Victory Park
Barnoldswick Town 2-1 Dunston UTSFA Cup Preliminary RoundSaturday 19th August 2017Barnoldswickand the surrounding areas of West Craven were part of the West Riding of Yorkshire between 876 and 1974....
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Around the Alliance - part twenty
580. Red Row WelfareRed Row Welfare 5-1 Cramlington TownNorthern Alliance First DivisionSaturday 26th August 2017Red Row is a rural village, situated just a few miles from the Northumberland coastline....
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✔583 Cobham Training Centre
Chelsea U-18 2-0 Arsenal U-18 FA U-18 Premier LeagueSaturday 9th September 2017 As part of my trip to Surrey for the Sutton United v Gateshead match, I spent the morning in the village of Stoke...
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✔584 Gander Green Lane
Sutton United 1-1 GatesheadNational LeagueSaturday 9th September 2017The town and London Borough of Sutton lies on the lower slopes of the North Downs, a ridge of chalk hills which stretch from Farnham...
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