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August 2019

Touchline Shouting

Touchline shouting, that’s all I ever hear,

I’m so confused and filled with fear.

I’m only ten years old and football should be fun,

But with all this noise I don’t know which way to run.

“Get back in defence!” my manager shouts.

Dad shouts, “Get up front and deal with these louts!”

Loud mouth supporter, who knows all the rules.

(He takes the rest of us for fools)

Shouts, “What are you doing lad? Your head’s in a spin!”

Is it any surprise, with all this din?

I am only a boy, so why do you all try to destroy, what I’d love to enjoy?

FOOTBALL SHOULD BE FUN!

© Simon Icke

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Saturday 3rd August 2019
Peel Croft, Burton-upon -Trent

12noon                Invitational Cup Final
Netherseal St Peters 1

Josh Coates 8,

Renishaw Rangers 3

Luke Mancove 4, 76,

Craig Purcell 73,                                                                     Attendance:- 189

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3.00pm               CMFL Chairman’s Cup Final
Pinxton 5

Shaun Smith 20,

Sion Green 32, 33, 87,

John Fones 66,

Bakewell Town 1

Ben Each 56,
Referee (for both) Dom Chambers.                                          Attendance 269

Admission (for both):- £5.00                                               Programme:- included.
The last chance to watch football at a venue that hosted League football between 1892 and 1907 when Burton Swifts and, later, Burton United played here. At present, the ground belongs to Burton RUFC, but they are moving to a new facility and the iconic old ground is going to be demolished. A large gathering of hoppers attended this unique event!

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This picture (and those below) show the changing rooms at Peel Croft

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Sunday 4th August 2019
International Champions Cup

Tottenham Hotspur 1

Lucas Moura 3,

Inter Milan 1

Stefano Sensi 36,                                                Inter Milan won by 4-3 on penalties
Referee:- Andre Marriner.                                               Attendance:- 58,905
Admission:- OMGDS £15.00 (£25)                               Programme:- £5.00
Wonderful new stadium, great view from our seats behind the goal, ten rows from the top! However, there were no tube trains, today and parking was at a premium – even with Graeme’s parking pass! There were no team sheets and although the programme printed the squad names, there were no corresponding squad numbers! Each side made ten changes during the second half and after a reasonable first period, the game degenerated into farce! With Graeme and John.

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Graeme and John take in the action!

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Tuesday 6th August 2019
Uhlsport United Counties League Premier Division

Harborough Town 2

Barnes Gladman 40,

Ben Williams 90,

Oadby Town 1

Christopholos Anastasi 83,
Referee:- Harry Moir.                                                    Attendance:- 147
Admission:- OMGDS £3.00 (£6)                           Programme:- £1.00
Harborough’s home is a 3G pitch with a couple of Meccano stands. There is a quite extensive club house and refreshment facilities and this evening’s local derby attracted a quite healthy attendance! The game was played at breakneck pace, but with very few chances and, probably, Harborough deserved the victory and the points. With Graeme Askham.

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Wednesday 7th August 2019
Pre-Season Friendly

Belton Villa 4

Kane Laird 34,

Ollie Meadows 37,

Joe Brett 41,

Matt Garner 89,

Sutton Bonington 1

Lawrence wall 27,
Referee:- Terry Simmonds.                                         Attendance:- 16
Admission:- F.O.C.                                                Programme:- NONE
Both of these clubs ply their trade in The North Leicestershire League Premier Division. The league doesn’t start until the beginning of September, so there is plenty of opportunity for pre-season friendliest!. Tonight’s match was pretty competitive in the first half, when the hosts gained a 3-1 advantage. Large scale substitutions at and after half-time saw the game deteriorate, but a fourth goal from the hosts with a scant two minutes remaining, sealed the victory! With Graeme Askham and John Main.

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Graeme Askham

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Friday 9th August 2019
FA Premier League

Liverpool 4

Grant Hanley 7 (og),

Mo Salah 19,

Virgil Van Dijk 29,

Divock Origi 42,

Norwich City 1

Teemu Pukki 64,
Referee:- Michael Oliver.                               Attendance:- 53,333
Admission:- a lot.                                              Programme:- £3.50
Of all my thirty-three visits to Anfield, this was the least comfortable, squeezed into the very back row of the lower tier of The Anfield Road end. However, the first half made up for it! Liverpool were majestic and swept in four decisive goals and could have had more. The second half was much more pedestrian and Norwich scored the only goal in that period. With Graeme Askham.

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Saturday 10th August 2019
U-18 Professional Development League

Bolton Wanderers 1

Matt Wilcox 78,

Watford 5

J. Matthews 18,

JJ McKiernan 54,

M. Thompson 60,

Jordan Harrison 61,

Sonny B Lo Everton 90+1,
Referee:- Dave Chadwick.                                    Attendance:- 35
Admission:- F.O.C.                         Programme:- free teamsheet
at The Eddie Davies Academy
The rain came down so hard that there were very few spaces in the car park due to flooding! The officials couldn’t have been more helpful. Teamsheets were available and the names off the referee and his colleagues were located, too. But the rain came down in biblical waves! Even so, the pitch was immaculate and Bolton’s young team – some of whom looked yet to enter teenagerdom – proved no match for the physically bigger and stronger visitors! With Graeme Askham.

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Saturday 10th August 2019
EFL League One

Bolton Wanderers 0

Coventry City 0
Referee:- James Adcock                                       Attendance:- 8,901
Admission:- OMGDS £10.00 (£20)                  Programme:- £3.00
The former Reebok, the formerMacron Stadium is now The University of Bolton stadium, and it looked a might careworn and unkempt. The uncertainty surrounding the future of the club transferred to the stewards who admitted to knowing little and receiving hardly any instructions. Bolton’s youth team (who should have been playing this morning!!!) were severely tested by the visitors, but somehow managed to hold out amidst the incessant precipitation which ensured a long drive home in very wet clothes! With Graeme Askham.

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Saturday 17th August 2019
Vanarama Nationwide League South

Maidstone United 1

Matt McClure 37,

Slough Town 1

Matt Lunch 20,
Referee:- Callum Walchester.         Attendance:- 1,815 (96 away supporters)
Admission:- OMGDS £15.00 (£21)                                   Programme:- £2.00
The train took the strain from Kettering to Maidstone Barracks and from there it was a ten minute walk to Maidstone’s still very new looking and impressive stadium. This was a match between the two teams who play on plastic pitches. I’m no fan of plastic and this match was a predictable draw.

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Tuesday 20th August 2019
Uhlsport United Counties League Cup
Preliminary Round

Desborough Town 5

Nathaniel Ansu 50, 79, 84,

Brian Farrell 61,

Philip Dashit 64,

Wellingborough Whitworth 1

Jason Crawley 74,
Referee:- Ryan Allison.                                             Attendance:- 75
Admission:- £6.00.                                             Programme:- £1.00
At Tarn struggled in the first half against their lower division opponents, but a second half hat-trick from top scorer Nathaniel Ansu helped to bury Whitworths pretty comprehensively. With son, Mike and grandson, Freddie at my favourite United Counties League ground.

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Wednesday 21st August 2019
Peterborough & District League Division 1

FC Peterborough 0

Premiair 3

Lee Deane 8, 52, 57,
Referee:- Craig Hardy.                                                            Attendance:- 29
Admission:- F.O.C.                                                         Programme:- NONE
The hosts came down to earth with a bump after three straight wins to open their season in this match at Fulbridge Recreation Ground in Dogsthorpe. The visitors, who are a works team for a heating and refrigeration company in the city, grew into the game after a hesitant start and strike, Lee Deane’s hat trick proved to be the difference between the sides.

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Welsh ‘Hop’ 23-26th August 2019

Graeme Askham, John Main and I went down to The Welsh ‘Hop’ in John’s car and whilst we stayed with the others at The University of South Wales student accommodation in Treforest, we didn’t use the ‘hop’ coach for daily travel. This was because, on three occasions, we went ‘off piste’ so to speak and visited other matches than those scheduled on the ‘hop’. These three matches were the Welsh Premier League match at Penybont in Bridgend on the Friday evening, The Cymru South match at Undy on Saturday afternoon and The Bridgend Sunday League match at the TATA Steel plant in Port Talbot on Sunday morning. We did, however, avail ourselves of the excellent breakfast each morning at The Hollybush Inn (CF14 7EG)

Friday 23rd August 2019
Welsh Premier League k.o.:- 7.45pm

Penybont 1

Luke Borelli 89 (pen),

Cardiff Met University 3

William Albert Evans 38,

Dylan Patrick James Rees 77 (pen),

Male Davies 83,
Referee:- Richard Harrington                                            Attendance:- 331
Admission:- OMGDS£5.00 (£7).                                  Programme:- £2.00
Premier League newcomers, Penybont were given a harsh lesson in the realities of life in the top division in Wales. Playing on a 3G surface and with good views all round the ground, they started positively enough, but were ground down by the sheer professionalism of their opponents. They will need to improve considerably if they are to survive in this division!

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Saturday 24th August 2019
Gwent Premier League Division 1 k.o.:- 11.00am

Coed Eva Athletic 4

David Davies 8, 63, 64,

Damian Brean 37,

Newport Saints 3

Wayne Roberts 4, 50,

Kieron Bourne 4,
Referee:- Huw Marfell.                              Attendance:- 227
Admission:- £3.00.                                Programme:- £1.00
This humdinger of a match between the two promoted sides from Division 3 last season ended somewhat surprisingly in favour of the runners-up. Division 1,2,3 has now become Premier, 1, and 2 and the league re-named Gwent Premier League from Gwent County League. For long periods, the visitors seemed in the ascendency, but a mistake by the visiting custodian gifted a goal to the hosts and two second half strikes within a minute around the hour mark, ensured an unlikely home win!

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Just past the far end f the ground, a public pathway took one into a lovely wooded walk amidst streams and ponds and even another football pitched, closed off and inaccessible and overgrown. I must have walked for over a mile on a circuitous rout back to the Coed Eva Athletic football pitch!

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Saturday 24th August 2019
JD Cymru League South k.o.:- 2.30pm

Undy Athletic 0

Cambrian & Clydach 1

Liam David Reed 62,
Referee:- Alex McInch.                                Attendance:- 91
Admission:- OMGDS £3.00 (£5).            Programme:- £2.00
Undy’s neat ground has been recently developed with a new stand next to the entrance and a complete pitch re-surface, at a very economical cost of £98,000. The chairman of Monmouthshire County Council performed the official opening in February this year. On the pitch, two well matched sides slugged it out on a boiling hot day and the visitors just edged it. Quite surprised at the paucity of the attendance at what is the second tier of Welsh football!

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Saturday 24th August 2019
Gwent Premier League Premier Division k.o.:- 5.00pm
Newport Corinthians 2
Joe Morgan 32,
Jamie Brooks 78,
AC Pontymister 3
Dec Cooper 11*, 33,
Joe Baston 47,
Referee:- Matthew Street.                                 Attendance:- 211
Admission:- £3.00.                                        Programme:- £1.00
Coronation Park in the shadow of the mighty Newport Suspension Bridge, hosted the final match of the day in blazingly hot conditions. The visitors were the more proficient side but they made heavy weather of their victory. For the spectators, cake and ale was the fare – and maybe a long cool shower back at the ranch!
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An excellent view of The Newport Suspension Bridge which dominated the Newport Corinthians football ground. Nearly fifty years ago (1971), I remember climbing to the top of the bridge and walking across. I was young and foolish!
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Sunday 25th August 2019
Bridgend & District Sunday League Division 1 k.o.:- 11.00am
John Tye Auctions 1
James Barry 28,
Walnut Wildcats 4
Ashley Mullins 23,
Nathan Tassel 53, 57, 65
Referee:- Derek Evans.                                        Attendance:- 23
Admission:- F.O.C.                                       Programme:- NONE
A rather eccentric sounding match, but an opportunity to see an iconic ground, variously known as The Acorn Stadium or The P&O Ferries Ground at TATA Steel in Port Talbot – and well worth the visit. Very helpful teams – and referee kept us well informed as to who was playing and both of these teams suffered heavy defeats on the opening day of the season last week, the hosts shipping fifteen goals and the visitors, seven! Fewer goals this week, but an emphatic victory for The Wildcats.
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Sunday25th August 2019
Gwent Premier League Division 2 k.o.:- 3.00pm
Cefn Fforest 4
Bob Hodson,
Luke Bowen 77, 90+1,
Na than Williams 83,
Gilwern 1
Andrew McCarthey 85,
Referee:- Nigel Baldwin.                       Attendance:- 247
Admission :- £3.00.                           Programme:- £1.00
The duel in the sun between last season’s bottom club and newly promoted visitors was played against the exciting backdrop of a third Ashes Test won by England by one wicket! On the field, the hosts won comfortably!
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Seated on the left, Graeme Askham and on the right, Johnny Holland.
Yours truly, standing behind!
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Sunday 25th August 2019
Gwent Premier League Premier Division k.o. 6.00pm
Wattsville 2 Pill YMCA 2
Referee:- Ben Skuse.                                  Attendance:- 243
Admission:- £3.00.                               Programme:- £1.00
A picturesque ground with a very steep backdrop once covered in trees, but now almost bare after several fires was the venue for this very entertaining tussle between two sides in the top division of the league. Each side had periods in the ascendancy but in the end, the draw was a fair result.
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Monday 26th August 2019
Gwent Premier League Premier Division k.o.:- 11.00am
Abertillery Excelsiors 2
Dafyd Jones 18, 54 (pen),
Vila Dino Christchurch 0
Referee:- Dave Mason.                                Attendance:- 236
Admission:- £3.00.                                  Programme:- £1.00
A little gem of a ground nestling at the foot of a rather steep mountainside, with floodlights and hard standing, an extensive pavilion and securely fenced in, this was by some distance the best ground in the league this weekend! A monument just outside commemorated William Williams, who died in a Chartist riot in 1839. Inside the ground, the adversaries were separated by a goal in each half to the home side.
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Monday 26th August 2019
Gwent Premier League Division 1 k.o.:- 2.00pm
Pentwynmawr 3
Daniel Suter 7,
Luke James 31, 37,
Lucas Cwmbran 2
Jamie Arnold 14,
Connor Silcox 41,
Referee:- Chris Palmer.                                   Attendance:- 237
Admission:- £3.00.                                      Programme:- £1.00
Vehicle chaos attempting to reach this tight little ground tucked between a long row of terraced housing and a deep ravine. The first half was decisive with all the goals arriving in the first frenetic forty minutes. The pace was maintained throughout the second period, but there were no more goals!
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Monday 26th August 2019
Gwent Premier League Premier Division k.o.:- 5.00pm
Newport Civil Service 2
Luke Edwards 10, 87,
Abercarn 0
Referee:- Gary Mobley.                          Attendance:- 252
Admission:- £3.00.                              Programme:- £1.00
Newport Civil Service have spent time considerably higher up the Welsh beanpole, but not recently. The ground has a tired, careworn appearance with some cover provided by an inventively renovated shipping container. There was even some hard standing around part of the perimeter, but also some very long grass to trample through! The hosts won with a goal at the beginning of the first half and a second in the final five minutes.
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Tuesday 27th August 2019
Leicestershire Senior League
Beacon Hill League Cup 1st Round
Bottesford 3
Callum Bell 53,
Paul Stokes 70,
Stuart Brown 80,
Sutton Bonington 2
Callum Bell 40 (og),
Jack Tormey 51,
Referee:- Alfie Finch-Critchley.                           Attendance:- 24
Admission:- F.O.C.                                          Programme:- NONE
Right on the northern border of Leicestershire, a few hundred yards from Nottinghamshire lies the well appointed playing fields of Bottesford. Two games were being played and on the far pitch it was raining goals for Bottesford U-11s. Meanwhile the senior team were falling two goals behind to league newcomers, Sutton Bonington. The weather changed, it got quite dark, lightning flashed and, spurred on by the elements, the hosts crashed in three unanswered strikes to win the tie!
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Wednesday 28th August 2019
Kershaws Cambridgeshire County League Senior “A”
Huntingdon United 1
Ellis Ogle 72,
Gamlingay United 0
Referee:- Andrew Clenshaw.                                 Attendance:- 51
Admission:- F.O.C.                                           Programme:- NONE
A fairly basic venue with changing rooms, but little else. The hosts lay claim to being the premier club in Huntingdon – although Huntingdon Town might dispute that! The facilities consisted of changing rooms, but nothing for the visiting spectator (and there was a good crowd this evening!). Tonight, the hosts had Tommy Evans out, injured and they struggled, clearly the inferior team for long periods. The only goal came after 72 minutes, a deflected shot from the boot of man of the match, Ellis Ogle!
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Gamnlingay United playing strip!
The changing rooms at Stoney Close, Sapley Road in Huntingdon. On an adjacent pitch there was a friendly match being played, Houghton & Wyton v Eunice Huntingdon 
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Saturday 31st August 2019
FA Vase 1st Qualifying Round
Southwick 1
Andy Hales 80,
Billingshurst 2
Tre Trowers 37 (pen)
Seb Barrientos 86 (pen),
Referee:- David Barnard.                                    Attendance:- 44
Admission:- OMGDS £2.50 (£5).                    Programme:- £1.00
Down in deepest Sussex, Southwick ply their trade in the first division of The tautologically named Southern Combination League. Their ground is a tad careworn and in need of a strong dose of TLC. In the same division, Billingshurst have lost all their league games this season and prop up the table. Today, they won a narrow victory despite a strong rearguard action from the hosts!
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Other Matches:-

Saturday 3rd August 2019

(Ashbourne) Summer League – Wayne Tabard Memorial Trophy FINAL

Doveridge 2 Legion 1

(at Mappleton Playing Field)                          Attendance:- 131

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Monday 19th August 2019

Premier League 2 Division 1

Leicester City U23 1 Blackburn Rovers U23 1

(at King Power Stadium)                                     Attendance:- 620

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Matches:-

This month         27 matches         19 New Grounds
This Season        35 matches         23 New Grounds
TOTAL           4,204 matches    1,578 New Grounds

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