The game today was a Vanorama National League South fixture. My first visit ever to Park View Road Stadium. It’s a nice little ground in the heart of Welling and has a real football ground feel with welcoming food, club shop and bar areas as you enter. Two large seated and covered stands flank the…

This was a London Senior Cup match at the Artic Stadium in Eltham. The ground was easy to find and had a small tea bar and on the opposite side of the ground a covered stand, with sheltered comfy seating. Corinthian Casuals have a long and illustrious history, and they influenced the England and Real…

As the lockdown continues I have been looking back at games I’ve attended over the years. In the 1980’s I had started going to see England play, either through the football supporter’s society trips with the University of Warwick where I was studying, or with friends. It started with a 1980 Home Championship game against…

I travelled to what would be the final game before the second lockdown of the year, at Folkestone Invicta, where the manager Neil Cugley has served for 24 years, being the longest serving manager in the top seven tiers of football. The ground had a real atmosphere and a crowd pushing 600 all singing and…

Arrived early for this one on a very very wet afternoon. Depressing news this morning suggested increased cases of Covid across the country and thus a real possibility of an announcement later today of further national lockdown and a suspension of the non-league fixtures. What this would do to our smaller clubs is a real…

I decided to attend this Isthmian League South East game just the day before, and arranged to meet a friend there. The Homelands ground is in Kingsnorth and has lots of parking. Entrance cost £10 for adults and the excellent match day programme was £2. The ground has a huge main stand complete with bar,…

In choosing this weekend’s match it was fairly simple. Chatham Town are top of the Southern Counties East Premier League, after 9 matches and averaging 5.5 goals a game. Erith are 7th and having scored 5 in their last home match, I figured this game would produce a high return of goals. The ground is…

Another Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division game and the first evening game under lights of the 2020-21 season for me. I met a friend, Richard and came to Bearsted… found the ground after a short drive from picking him up at the railway station. Parked under some impressive trees (wouldn’t want to reverse…

Travelled to Gay Dawn Farm for this top of the table clash in the Southern Counties East Football League Premier Division. The drive was perilous… up narrow winding country lanes with limited passing places – only to find the road I needed was closed and that I’d have to divert back on myself. At one…

Decided to attend this Southern Counties East Football League Division 1 match at the last minute having decided against driving to Beckenham Town to watch the Chatham game. Snodland hasn’t got the biggest ground but once you’ve parked at the leisure centre and walked across the pitches to the ground it’s got a nice covered…