This was a first visit to the Champion Hill Stadium, accompanied by my eldest son, to see National League South’s Dulwich Hamlet play. Dulwich Hamlet have the biggest average attendance this season, in the National League South, with an average of 2649 a game. That is a really impressive figure for a team, whose stadium…
Forest Hill Park FC v Stansfeld FC – Wednesday 9th March 2022 – Ladywell Arena
My first visit to the Ladywell Arena, for a non league football match (although I have attended sports and athletics events on the arena previously) took place on a chilly but dry March evening. Forest Hill Park came into the game sitting in 19th place and in the relegation places, still seven points behind the…
Glebe FC v Chatham Town – Saturday 5th March 2022 – Foxbury Avenue Ground
I had planned to travel elsewhere but the lure of this mouth watering league fixture between Chatham Town, who were top of the Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division and Glebe FC who are third, was just too much to resist. Both sides came into the tie on the back of a run of…
Corinthian Casuals v Carshalton Athletic – Thursday 3rd March 2022 – King George’s Field Tolworth
This clash, of the Isthmian Premier league sides, came in the Surrey Senior Cup round 2, unusually was played on a Thursday evening. I was working over towards Coulsdon so decided this was a fixture worth attending. Corinthian Casuals moved to the King George’s Field ground when they merged with Tolworth in the mid 1980’s,…
Cheltenham Saracens v Worcester Raiders – Saturday 26th February 2022 – Petersfield Park
I was able to attend this Midland Hellenic League Division 1 match with my father, whilst visiting my parents in the Cotswolds. Having seen a few games in this division, over the course of this season, it was good to come over to Petersfield Park to see this clash of the third and fourth placed…
Chatham Town v Tower Hamlets FC – Tuesday 22nd February 2022 – The Bauvill Stadium
Tonight’s game was played, on a blustery and chilly late winter evening, at what has fast become one of my favourite grounds to visit, the Bauvill Stadium, home of Chatham Town. The Bauvill is a modern ground and with its impressive standing and covered seating provision, high quality food and bar facilities and a pristine…
Tooting Bec FC v Staplehurst Monarchs – Saturday 19th February 2022 – Imperial Fields
For the second Saturday in a row I had the pleasure of watching a hardworking Staplehurst Monarchs side, playing in the Southern Counties East League, Division 1. This fixture was at Tooting Bec’s Imperial Fields Stadium, a ground they share with Isthmian League neighbours, Tooting & Mitchum United FC. The ground is impressive at this…
Folkestone Invicta FC v Cray Wanderers – Tuesday 15th February 2022 – The BuildKent Stadium
I came with two good friends to this Isthmian Premier League fixture, for my second visit to the BuildKent Stadium in Folkestone. The game had been in doubt until a final pitch inspection, by the referee, twenty minutes prior to kick off. Indeed the game between Dover and Notts County had been called off just…
Staplehurst Monarchs v Lewisham Borough FC – Saturday 12th February 2022 – Jubilee Sports Ground
This was my first visit to see Staplehurst Monarchs in their inaugural season in the Southern Counties East Football League Division 1. It was also the final Kent ground at level ten and above that I had yet to visit. I chose a bright, but chilly, Saturday afternoon in February to travel to this match….
Wick FC v Mile Oak FC – Friday 11th February 2022 – Crabtree Park
I travelled with my eldest son, after work on a cold Friday evening, down to Crabtree Park, the home of Wick FC, near Littlehampton in Sussex. Wick FC and Mile Oak FC play at the tenth level of the English football pyramid, in the Southern Combination League Division 1. The table, prior to kick off,…
