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I READ with interest Tony Incenzo’s article in The NLP on the Football ‘Groundhopping’ pastime which has grown to commercial proportions in the organised and capable hands of Chris Berezai and Laurence Reade, and have previously participated in a number of their very enjoyable tours.
We should also pay tribute to the original pioneers of the ‘Football Traveller’ movement. Football book author Dave Twydell ran a trip in Autumn 1990 visiting the sites of extinct English ex-league grounds, Mike Amos MBE the charismatic former Northern...

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