In his first post for Hopper’s Guide this season, Steve Sharman seeks some post-summer holiday recovery time at Woodside Road, home to the Blues of Bishop’s Stortford, as they take on Real Bedford in the FA Cup. It’s September, and it’s raining. The summer holidays are over, the kids are back at school, and it’s…
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Whickham, Glebe Sports Ground – Hopper Tales #81
Whickham Wanderers This weekend our wanderings took us to Whickham. No, not a spelling mistake and a long way from the Buckinghamshire-based team. Whickham is another team based up here in the northeast, just to the west of Gateshead. The town is located two miles southwest of Dunston, the scene of one of our most…
South Shields, Mariners Park – Hopper Tales #44
For only the second time since we started this ground-hopping journey back in January of 2022, we are going back to a stadium we have previously visited. The first stadium we have been back to was Hartlepool United‘s Victoria Park, the scene of our first Hop. This time, we would be returning to Mariners Park…



