Bank Holiday Monday 2nd April 2018 15.00
Evostik Premier
Grantham Town 3 Shaw Lane 1 HT: 0-1 Att: 484 Ent: £10 Prog £2 Coffee £1
Shaw 58, 73, Hempenstall 84 : Lugsden 12
from South Kesteven Sports Centre or The Meres
This was another matchday where the most frequent scoreline was P-P. I know Bank Holidays are famously ridiculed for being wash-outs, but this one took the piss. My original intention was to complete my fourth ground in 10 days where the home team began with the letters C-O – Coventry Alvis- it would also complete my Coventrys. When Alvis was P-P (Alvis didn’t even enter the building, let alone leave it), my 2nd through 7th choices all fell by the wayside – including Studley, Nuneaton Griff and Colne (also starting with C-O). A few leagues had a full set of PPs including the East Midlands League and the North West Counties League. Continue reading “Grantham Town”
Saturday 14th November 2015 3.00pm
I’d wanted to do Marine for a few years and now the opportunity arose to watch my preferred local side for the season, Kidsgrove Athletic, in the second round of the FA Trophy. Marine have an interesting history, dating back to 1894. There are called Marine, rather than Great Crosby, Crosby or Brighton-le-Sands because the businessmen and former students who set the club up met at the Marine hotel on the Mersey seafront at Waterloo. They’re one of a few clubs who have played at their current venue for over 100 years; since 1903. The ground used to be known as Rossett Park, before becoming the Arriva Stadium and more recently the Marine Travel Arena
Saturday 7th November 2015 3pm
In German there is an excellent word, Weltschmerz, which describes the belief that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind. Often I find the idea of a new non league ground and day out disproportionately exciting to the reality that unfolds, which can be for many reasons; bland venue, poor match, disappointing pre-match drink or sometimes for no discernible reason. Actually I find an inverse relationship between how excited I am before a game and the subsequent enjoyment. 
The Groundhog 