Redhill FC, of the Combined Counties Premier League, are known as the Lobsters. That was a suitable name for the home team, on a day when temperatures reached 29 degrees. My failure to sunscreen in the last Saturday game had left me looking like a lobster so today I took no chances and was ready…

The War Memorial Sports Ground is based in the heart of Carshalton. It is a really impressive non-league ground, with bags of character and the staff provided a great welcome. There is a free and extensive car park and once I’d paid the £8 entrance fee for this friendly fixture, I was entering a ground,…

This friendly tie was played on the Croydon Postal ground, which took some finding, being located on a quiet road in Warlingham, on the borders of Croydon and Surrey. There was good car parking even with the clubhouse being packed with people enjoying a live band. The ground boasted a sloping and dry grass pitch…

So for my second game in one day, on the opening day of my 2022/23 season, I travelled about 15 miles from Epsom to arrive at the Whyteleafe Stadium, where I would see Jay Saunders’ National League South, Tonbridge Angel side play Sutton Common Rovers, of the Isthmian League (South Central Division). The Church Road…

The 2022-23 season opened for me, with a visit in warm sunshine to see a friendly played on a high quality artificial surface, at Epsom and Ewell High School. I had been delayed arriving here because a lorry had shed a load of bottles on a connecting road near Chessington World of Adventures, so was…

For what I believe may be my final match of the season, I visited the home of FC Revo, of the Sevenoaks & District League. This league feeds into the Kent County League structure. Post-lockdown, last April and May, I had attended a number of games in this league and had been impressed with the…

This evening’s match was the Kent Senior Cup final played at Chatham Town’s Bauvill Stadium, between Steve King’s Dartford FC, who had only last week lost in the National League South play-offs and Folkestone Invicta, of the Isthmian Premier League. Folkestone started the season so well, pushing the promotion places, but faded in the latter…

This Hertfordshire Senior County League tie was played in warm sunshine on the FA Cup final Saturday. I came for my first visit to Garden Walk with an old friend, and found a well resourced and welcoming club. The pitch was grass and looked to be in good condition. The ground boasts two covered standing…

This National League South play-off eliminator was played at the modern Princes Park Stadium, in Dartford, on a cloudy and cool early summer, Thursday evening. The ground is completely covered throughout with terraced standing on three sides and seating on one. The ground has modern facilities and boasts a unique wooden support statue holding up…

I joined an all time record and capacity crowd of 4,175 at the Gallagher Stadium, for Maidstone United’s final game of a season which has seen them crowned as National League South Champions. The sun came out briefly, an hour before kick off on what had, upto then, been a grey and drizzly day. It…