A bright Spring day drew me down to Lancing FC on the South Coast, to see Lancing and Chatham Town of the Isthmian South East Division play a game of much significance, for both teams. Lancing FC moved to Culver Road in 1952 and a 350 seater stand was erected soon afterwards. The ground benefits…

My first visit to the Green Court Sports Ground at Swanley was on Good Friday for the 2023 final of the Senior Sevenoaks Charity Cup. This fixture was between Hawkenbury FC of the Sevenoaks & District Football League Premier Division and Halls AFC Reserves, who play in the Kent County League Division 3 (West). Green…

I came, with my youngest son, to Larkfield & New Hythe FC, to watch the 2nd versus 3rd tie in the Southern Counties East Football League (SCEFL) Division 1. The Taray Community Stadium, home of Larkfield & New Hythe is a simple and welcoming ground, always guaranteed to provide a good atmosphere and a perfect…

With the weather warmer and some holiday time on my horizon, I decided to come up for an evening midweek kick off, to Staplehurst, home of the Monarchs, for their Southern Counties East Football League fixture. This game had been reorganised twice before due to the pitch being unplayable, but tonight the weather was much…

So on the day the clocks went forward and we finally felt as if Spring was here, I chose to return to the Southern Combination Premier Division, to the home of Little Common FC, on the edge of Bexhill on Sea. The weather chose to be cold, windy and wet, to remind everyone that winter…

The first official game of Spring brought me on a very wintery night, to the Bauvill Stadium, to watch a Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division fixture between two sides battling to stay clear of the relegation places. Welling Town sit in eighteenth place just above the relegation zone, with thirty points from thirty…

I took advantage of a trip to Brussels, with a friend, to see this women’s Superleague Vrouwenvoetbal fixture at Gemeentelijk Sportstadion, at Zaventem, right on the edge of Brussels Airport. The ground has a modern clubhouse and covered seating all down the length of one side of the pitch. A major sound system, putting many…

This fixture on paper looked really attractive, with both sides pushing for play off positions in the Southern Counties East Football League, Division 1, one of the highest scoring and most competitive, of the local non league divisions. With less than ten games left this season for both sides this is a must win fixture…

My first visit to the East Peckham Recreation ground in Pippin Road, was to see a West Kent Sunday Football league Division 1 fixture between AFC Valour and Simla FC. Simla FC once played at East Peckham Recreation ground themselves so while AFC Valour were the home side, there was little advantage. Simla FC sat…

A journey to bring my step daughter to visit Aston University, as part of her preparation for making Uni choices for next year, meant that I could come to see my home team, Birmingham City play in the Championship against Rotherham United. I was sat in the railway end (now named the Gil Merrick stand)…