#FloodlightFriday from the legendary Market Road (Pitch 1)

Pleasure as always to be part of the fact/proof checking team on these seminal publications. If you missed out on the first book, you really have no excuse this time!

📅 Sunday June 15th 2025 ⏰ KO: 1pm 🏆 Bradford Summer Cup Group A 📍 Idle Cricket Club 💷 Free 📖 None Bolton Woods 9 (McHugh 15, 54, 65, 72, Dieme 56, 64, 67, Needham 78, 85) West Leeds 1 (Frudd 44) Att:31

📅 Thursday June 18th 2025 ⏰ KO: 7.15pm 🏆 Llandyrnog & District Summer League 📍 Nantglyn Playing Field 💷 Free 📖 None Nantglyn 13 Ysceifiog 0 Att:44

A superb Bangor City mural close to their much missed former home at Farrar Road.

My annual end of the season review of the great and the good from another season of #groundhopping peterrmiles.wordpress.com/2025/06/22/sti…

📅 Tuesday July 1st 2025 ⏰ KO: 7.45pm 🏆 Friendly 📍 Marks Hall Sports Centre 3G 💷 Free 📖 None Takeley 2 (Hall 46, Solomon-Huggins 79) Sawbridgeworth Town 5 (Arnold 8, Millett 18, Darby 39, Palmer 62, Trialist 85) Att:31

📅 Wednesday July 2nd 2025 ⏰ KO: 7.30pm 🏆 Friendly 📍 Jack Carter Centre, Frenford FC 💷 Free 📖 None Chadwell Heath Spartans 6 Ekota 3 Att:28

📅 Thursday July 3rd 2025 ⏰ KO: 7pm 🏆 Derbyshire Summer League 📍 Church Broughton Playing Field 💷 Free 📖 None Broughton Wanderers 1 (Goodall pen 77) Vaults 1 (Murphy 17) Att:24

Congratulations to David Williams on the publication of his memoirs of watching #Southend United. Published by Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books it covers his sixty years of following the mighty Shrimpers. Available to order now pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/never-nev…

A statue called “The Hug” in Ashbourne by Neil Hawksworth, depicting the traditional Shrovetide football match that has taken place between the “Up ‘ards” and “Down’ards” since at least 1683. I really must go sometime it looks absolutely bonkers.

My #FloodlightFriday comes from Mark Hall Sports Centre, home of Ongar Town.

📅 Saturday July 5th 2025 ⏰ KO: 2pm 🏆 Friendly 📍 Stourton Park, Stourbridge RFC 💷 £8 📖 £2 Stourbridge 4 (Shaw 9, Campbell 21, Freemantle 52, Bood 67) Dudley Town 2 (Muckley 22, Crook pen 32) Att:586

Local artist Cal has began immortalising the musical legacy of Stourbridge with band logo murals. The Wonderstuff mural is the size of a cow.

The War Memorial Athletic Ground in Amblecote has been home to Stourbridge FC since 1888, but sadly it’s set lose a lot of its considerable character. “Extremely costly” subsidence remediation work is needed to the embankment on which the grounds’ stands are located.

Kudos to Beecroft Art Gallery for an excellent day on the first ever Southend Is Brutal event. Gives a new appreciation of the fantastic buildings and structures we have in our city from that era of regeneration.

The Beecroft Art Gallery has a superb exhibition on until October celebrating “The Scene by the Sea” and the area’s considerable music and cultural heritage. Well worth a visit for memories from the Mod scene to the Junk Club,

📅 Monday July 7th 2025 ⏰ KO: 7pm 🏆 Friendly 📍 Kings Langley School 3G 💷 Free 📖 None Kings Langley 4 (Peterson 21, Connolly pen 61, 69, Turner 90) Bovingdon 0 Att:73

The ultimate football grounds book. Stop what you are doing and order one now, once they are gone they are gone!

📅 Tuesday July 8th 2025 ⏰ KO: 7.45pm 🏆 Friendly 📍 Leventhorpe Leisure Centre 3G 💷 Free 📖 None Sawbridgeworth Town 2 (David 1, Garrod 8) Witham Town 3 (Allen 15, Dorling 31, 57) Att:46