The Vanarama National League South gets underway next Saturday, on the 4th of August, and if this season proves anywhere near as exciting as last we’ll be lucky. Dartford and Havant & Waterlooville going head to head for the title right to the wire. Whitehawk staging an improbable, and ultimately doomed, post-Christmas fight for survival. ... Continue Reading →
Sunday 13th May 2018, 1500 Kick Off Hampton & Richmond Borough FC vs Braintree Town FC The Build Up Today’s match was a special one for me, falling as it did at the same ground as my first ever foray into nonleague football. It was fitting that Beveree Stadium would also host my final blog... Continue Reading →
Saturday 28th April 2018, 1500 KO Bognor Regis Town FC vs Dartford FC The Build Up It was the last round of fixtures in all Step One to Step Four leagues on Saturday, and with the National League South title one of few still in debate, it was to one of the two crucial fixtures... Continue Reading →
Saturday 14th April 2018, 1500 KO Havant & Waterlooville FC vs St Albans City FC The Build Up It’s squeaky bum time in nonleague divisions up and down the country, as the remaining fixtures list dwindles through the single figures. Well, in some leagues – rain, snow, plague and pestilence has resulted in some leagues... Continue Reading →
Saturday 10th March 2018, 1500 KO Dartford vs Poole Town The Build Up It had been a fair while since I watched a Step 2 match, so this week felt like a good time to dip back in to the Vanarama National League South. Table topping Dartford were hosting strugglers Poole Town at their Prince’s... Continue Reading →
Saturday 3rd February 2018, 1500 Kick Off Whitehawk FC vs Weston-super-Mare AFC The Build Up With January out the way, and the promise of better weather, I was looking forward to a month of uninterrupted Saturday football. Surely, as Spring edged its way closer the veritable wave of nonleague postponements would recede to a trickle,... Continue Reading →
Saturday 6th January 2018, 1500 KO St Albans City FC vs Chelmsford City FC The Build Up For the first game of 2018, I was making the hideous journey around the M25 to St Albans. I decided to make a weekend of it, and visited a friend in London Colney on the Friday evening, which... Continue Reading →
Saturday 23rd December 2017, 1500 KO Truro City FC vs Gloucester City FC The Build Up Another Christmas period has rolled around, and I’m back in Cornwall, trying to survive my mother’s annual one-woman crusade to ensure I start next year carrying more fat than the average seal. Between forced sittings of stew and dumplings,... Continue Reading →
Saturday 30th September 2017, 1500 KO Concord Rangers FC vs Dorking Wanderers FC The Build Up When Bodmin Town sadly lost their replay away in Bideford, I was deprived the opportunity to watch one of Cornwall’s finest in London this weekend. So, I was very grateful to Dorking Wanderers when they were able to give... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 27th July 2017, 1945 KO Metropolitan Police FC vs Hampton & Richmond Borough FC After a relaxing summer spent doing whatever people do when the weather is disappointingly English, the new football season could not come quickly enough. So, with much excitement, I packed up my new lens (Nikkor 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6) and headed off... Continue Reading →
