Peter Miles
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Life long Southend United supporter (through thin and thinner) & football ground bore. Itinerant pan-European football watcher. Instagram & Flickr: peterrmiles
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Glen Eckett is one of life’s really decent people and a real football man. What he and his young family have been through these past few months is genuinely as shocking and unbelievable as it gets. Value your health everyone and if you can help support this in any way please do.
🪙 | Canvey Island Football Club have aided in organising a fundraiser for Head Media Official and lifelong supporter Glen Eckett and his family, as he currently remains ill in hospital.
Any donations spared would be appreciated.
💛 Get well soon, Glen.
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Luton to be fined £5k for giving 5 kids their debut last night while Norwich U23s have a 28 year old scoring 3 for them. The game is broken.
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By far my most popular Instagram of 2018 was this one from May’s visit to AS Trenčín in Slovakia, one of the most stunning locations for watching football anywhere.
#Groundhopping
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The abandoned Avanhard Stadium, was due to be the new home ground of FC Stroitel
#Pripyat
but the
#Chernobyl
nuclear disaster meant no matches were ever played there.
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LOST GROUND - Tooting & Mitcham United vast Sandy Lane ground was probably the last of the big old amateur grounds in London when it was demolished in 2002.
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Still one of my favourite grounds in England, Crook Town’s glorious Millfield. It became their permanent ground in 1898 having previously been used for rugby. Still has huge covered and uncovered terracing, a proper ground.
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Berwick Charities Cup
Berwick Seniors 1 (Hainsworth 64)
Crusaders 5 (Demarco 1, Heston og 17, Reid 80, Aitchison 81, Short 82)
Att:79 (at The Stanks)
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The best thing I have seen this week? A bench made out of cricket bats. You’re welcome.
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A comfortable winner this year was the football pitch surrounded by the Elizabethan fortifications of Berwick upon Tweed. The Stanks is just glorious, be sure to pay it a visit.
#Groundhopping
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One of North Yorkshire’s finest grounds, Whitby Town’s sublime Turnbull Ground
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Definitely on my grounds to do list for next season is Croatian Div. 2 club NK Imotski. (Photos by Stéphane Lievens)
http://t.co/GEt5ifUaaG
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Rules of attending a non-league football match
#73
choose your spot to stand wisely...
http://t.co/P6LTFodIUt
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New entrants to the North Caledonian League, and the League’s most westerly venue, is Scourie whose Achlochan Park is one of the most scenic you will find anywhere
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📅 Saturday July 29th 2023
⏰ KO: 3pm
🏆 Highland League
📍 Bellslea Park
💶 £10 📖 None
Fraserburgh 3 (Butcher 57, 65, pen 76)
Lossiemouth 1 (Steart 4)
Att: c.500
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Grateful for the
@TranmereRovers
fans for the minutes silence and for their players’ black armbands in memory of our fallen captain Chris Barker. He will never be forgotten for the job he did here at
#Southend
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Incredible sports ground, industrial scale stand, terracing and floodlights at the Talbot Athletic Ground, home of Aberavon RFC
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As they have been so popular this week, here are some more photos from the incredible football ground known as The Stanks. Absolute bucket lister
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Favourite Scottish Places
Greenock Morton - Cappielow Park
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My picture from FC Sobemai is nine years old today. The train carriage was seized by Hitler following the annexation of Lithuania, and was bought to Germany for renovation. After the War, Queen Elizabeth used this carriage on state visits.
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Been on my wishlist forever but I am finally here at one of the UK’s most iconic football grounds, Claggan Park, home of
@FortWilliamFC
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One of the great remaining non-league grounds in London, the Maurice Rebak Stadium, home of
@WinFinchleyFC
comes complete with a superbly maintained Bailey’s turnstile to boot.
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Amazing to see parts of Borussia Mönchengladbach's legendary Bökelberg Stadion still clearly evident behind an estate of new houses.
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@ChesterfieldFC
supporters holding up
#Southend
United fans’ protest banner. Proper club, proper fans, grateful for the empathy and support today.
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The new Boston United stadium still has plenty of work left before games can be staged, but I am already a big fan of those floodlights
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Malcolm Root’s evocative painting of Halstead Town’s wonderful Rosemary Lane ground as he remembered it c.1959. The artist is the small child peering over the fence.
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Charlie Kelman is the youngest ever goalscorer for
#Southend
United on a league debut at 17 years and 71 days old, beating a record held by John Gymer since 1984. He is our second youngest first team goalscorer of all time behind Bobby Kellard who scored when he was still only 16
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Highland League
Fort William 0
Fortmartine United 6 (Barbour 22,35,51, Rodger 38, Gethins pen 59, Crawford 65)
Att:94
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Gibraltar First Division
St.Joseph’s 0
Gibraltar Phoenix 0
Att:62 (at Victoria Stadium)
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641 at Roots Hall tonight, the lowest attendance for a first team game in the clubs entire history
#Southend
@LeasingcomTrphy
@AgainstLeague3
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📅 Wednesday June 7th 2023
⏰ KO: 6pm
🏆 Fenix Trophy Semi Final
📍 Arena Civica, Milan
💶 €10 📖 €3
Boldklubben Skjold 3 (Zaqiri 8, Nissu 78, Bisgaard 90)
FC United of Manchester 2 (Gabidon 45, Griffiths pen 90+3)
Att: c.550
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Abandoned Places - Aylesbury United (Buckingham Road) This stadium was barely 20 years old when the lease expired. It has lain derelict every since, hopes the club could buy it back ended in late 2019 when it was sold to property developers at auction (photos March 2015)
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Another visit to the haunting remains of Cathkin Park, home to Third Lanark FC between 1903 and 1967 and for Queen’s Park between 1884 and 1993.
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The Welfare Ground in the High Street at Dodworth was opened in 1925 and the football club had stints in the old Yorkshire League before dropping right down to the Wakefield & District League. Climbed back to Step 7 in 2018 and the ground is looking in fine fettle
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I will never tire of visiting Stonebridge Road while it still stands. It is a truly iconic non league venue and still plenty of character despite attempts to modernise.
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📅 Saturday January 1st 2022
⏰ KO: 2pm
🏆 Dorset Premier League
📍 The Fortress
💶 £3 📖 None
Corfe Castle 3 (Baxter 3, Lowe 85, Lee 87)
Swanage Town & Herston 1 (Chapman 7)
Att:76
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As they were so popular yesterday here are some more shots from the stunning Claggan Park as
@FortWilliamFC
took on
@FormartineUtd
in the
@HighlandLeague
@SHFLfb
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Wonderous Wearhead, the highest football field in all of England at 1,107 feet. Dry stone walling, abandoned farm buildings and hugely undulating pitch, the very epitome of grassroots football. Local team United, brush aside Bay Horse by 4-1 on this amazing windswept plain. Att:6
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LOST GROUND - Dispiriting to see such a great community asset like Thurrock FC’s old Ship Lane locked up and unused. Sincerely hope Grays Athletic’s plans to move in here come to fruition this time. The grandstand at Ship Lane is rightly regarded as a modern classic.
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Favourite Scottish Places
Cambuslang Rangers - Somervell Park
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📅 Saturday April 1st 2023
⏰ KO:3pn
🏆 Midland League Div.2
📍 Cadbury Recreation Ground
💶 £5 📖 £1.50
Cadbury Athletic 0
Lane Head 1 (Henry 40)
Att:62
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The match in Escape To Victory was played at MTK Budapest’s old Hidegkuti Nandor Stadium as it resembled to the old Stade Colombes in Paris. That stadium has been replaced with a modern arena but in the film of the match you will see plenty of BKV Előre’s stand over the road
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Interesting to look back on my “Favourite Scottish Places” series, the most popular grounds featured (likes, RT’s and comments) were:
1st
@Morton_FC
2nd
@FraserburghFC
3rd
@ArbroathFC
4th
@cambygers1899
All top grounds, please do your best to pay them a visit when you can.
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Favourite Places
Stocksbridge Park Steels - Bracken Moor Lane
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Whilst in the Great Yarmouth area it seems foolish not to grab some more photos of one of England’s most iconic football grounds, the Wellesley Recreation Ground with its Grade II listed grandstand opened in 1892. 1/3
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Ever wondered what happened to Carlos Valderama? Evidently he has found gainful employment as kit man at Pontlottyn FC
@Groundhop2017
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The absolutely majestic Christchurch Meadow, home of Belper Town
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In a world where football programme sales are crashing through the floor you have to come up with some different to make people want to buy them. Massive salute to the people behind these stunning
@NonLgeProgs
at
@ClaptonCFC
beautiful artwork and insightful writing, wonderful!
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Saturday’s match was at the picturesque village of Dent as
@SedberghDentUtd
defeated
@shap_fc
3-1 in the Westmoreland Benevolent Cup
#Groundhopping
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Extraordinary photograph of a football match in La Paz, Bolivia from the Instagram account
@writeifucan
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Ilfracombe Town have played at Marlborough Park since 1924. The ground sits on a hill overlooking the Bristol Channel and needed levelling off before it could be played on. The club dropped to the North Devon League in recent years but are climbing back up the levels once again.
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Six years ago today I was at the Stadion Kantrida in Rijeka, one of the most beautiful locations to watch a game of football your could ever wish for.
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This arrived this week helping to plug the relative paucity of photographic books on Scottish football grounds. An absolute masterpiece from a grand old name of UK publishing
#DCThomson
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In fourth place is the ever photogenic double barrelled roof of the West Stand at Southend United’s Roots Hall
#Groundhopping
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📅 Saturday August 26th 2023
⏰ KO: 2pm
🏆 West of Scotland League Div.1
📍 Dam Park
💶 £8 📖 None
Whitletts Victoria 0
St Roch’s 3 (Thompson 56,60, Ferns 67)
Att:172
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#ThrowbackThursday
to a wonderful time spent in the Southern Carpathian mountains watching football at ACS Olimpic Zărnești as part of the Football In Heaven groundhop weekend
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Traditionally, no-one likes them and they don’t care, but as a non Millwall fan, I rather like this
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Really looking forward to watching a game at the new Cambridge City ground in Sawston, it looks a really high specification new build.
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One of the hidden gems of Isle of Wight football is the Seaview Recreation Ground, home of Seaview, one of the oldest clubs on the island.
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This is Folke Park home to John O’Groats FC of the Caithness County League
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Romanian IV Liga (Brașov County)
ASC Olimpic Zărneşti 4 (Berloiu 26, Dascâlu 39, Mielusolu 51, Simon 56)
ACSM Codlea 0
Att:256 (at Stadionul Celuloza Zărneşti)
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📅 Thursday July 13th 2023
⏰ KO: 6.30pm
🏆 UEFA Europa Conference League
📍 Brewery Field, Bridgend RFC
💶 £12 📖 Online (£1.55)
Penybont 1 (Venables 66)
FC Santa Coloma 1 (Mourelo 36)
Att:1,410
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Larkhall Athletic’s Plain Ham ground has a lovely setting overlooking Bath and the southern Cotswolds. Relatively basic in facilities, the stand was originally a cabinet maker’s bike shed. What it may lack in amenities is surely compensated by a lofty location and stunning vistas
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Another archive delve this morning, and what a cracking ground Belgium’s RSD Jette have. Just one of many wonderful stadiums in the Brussels area.
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📅 Wednesday June 7th 2023
⏰ KO: 8.30pm
🏆 Fenix Trophy Semi Final
📍 Arena Civica, Milan
💶 €10 📖 €3
Brera Calcio 0
Prague Raptors 2 (Cabranes 38,Askarov 87)
Att:169
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The mid 1920’s were a fascinating period in the Scottish Football League as an attempt was made at establishing a Third Division. Small clubs from tiny, way out, villages were invited in to a national division at a time of great austerity.
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Favourite Welsh Places
Blaenau Ffestiniog Amateurs - Cae Clyd
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Favourite Scottish Places
Kilsyth Rangers - Duncansfield Park
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Abandoned Places - Wolverton Town (The Park) The old stand was built in 1899 and was decaying when the club folded in 1992. Milton Keynes City spent a few seasons there before the ground closed. It is now a community space complete with a replica of the old stand. Photos 2010.
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The story of Fort William FC, perennial Highland League strugglers, who now face their biggest ever struggle, being alive for next season! Good luck to all at the iconic Claggan Park!
@FortWilliamFC
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#FloodlightFriday
Live from the long abandoned Stadionul Municipal in Bacău former home of FCM 1950 Bacău
#FIH6
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Have to say I am a massive fan of the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn 👌
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Forest Park, home of Scottish North Region Juniors club, Burghead Thistle
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There has been a Gayfield Park hosting Arbroath matches since 1880, although the current alignment of the ground, just feet from the North Sea, dates from 1925. The old pitch was known as Lesser Gayfield. The Red Lichties took on Rangers in 1952, a record gate of 13,510 gathered.
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Favourite Scottish Places
Dalbeattie Star - Islecroft Stadium
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Abandoned Places - Chelmsford City (New Writtle Street) home to the club between 1922 and a hasty vacation in May 1997. It was abandoned for a couple of years before a housing development took it’s place. (photos from Jan 1999)
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As footballing locations go, Earls Orchard, erstwhile home of Richmond Town takes some beating
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Today’s offering for
#FloodlightFriday
and it’s off to Dublin’s fair city and the cracking lights of
@bfcdublin
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Good to see one of my local clubs,
@SouthendManorFC
making some long awaited ground improvements. The pitch is properly enclosed for the first time since the club gained senior status in 1985, also some new dugouts and a
@stad_solutions
terracing unit on the Lifstan Way side
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