GAME 18 – JARROW ROOFING BCA 5-1 BILLINGHAM SYNTHONIA Date: Monday, August 25, 2014 – 11am Venue: Boldon CA Sports Ground Jarrow Roofing. It’s an odd name for a football club isn’t it? My initial thought was to write-off Jarrow Roofing as similar to other clubs that have changed their name for a few quid like Total Network Solutions … Continue reading
Saturday, February 22, 2014 @ Grounsell Park This was my third visit to Grounsell Park over the last year and in that time both the ground and it’s occupants, Heaton Stannington have been growing and evolving. My first time seeing the Stan was on Easter Monday 2013 when I saw them beat Wallsend Town on … Continue reading
Saturday, February 8, 2014 @ Sir Tom Cowie Millfield, Crook My Saturday lunchtime journey was relatively short in geographical terms but spanned one end of the footballing world to the other. I left the multi-million pound state-of-the-art Academy of Light and thanks to a bus-metro-train-bus public transport odyssey arrived in Crook, a small town at the opposite side … Continue reading
I had a great trip to the North East of England yesterday, managing to see two games despite the wet weather. An Under 18 Premier League game between Sunderland and Middlesbrough at the Academy of Light was first up at 11am, followed in the afternoon by Crook Town v Team Northumbria in the Northern League. … Continue reading
January 27, 2009 – Hillheads Park, Whitley Bay With a couple of evenings to spare in the north east, I toyed briefly with the idea of taking in Sunderland’s game with Fulham in the Premiership, or going further south to either Hartlepool or Darlington, both of whom had decent looking home games. Instead, I decided … Continue reading
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