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Diary of a ground hopper: Crowborough Athletic 1-2 Jersey Bulls

There’s usually a bit of dialogue between myself and my fellow Hopping Travellers in the week before a game to decide where we are going to go for our Saturday football entertainment.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
18 January 2026

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10
CROWBOROUGH ATHLETIC 1 JERSEY BULLS 2
THERE’S usually a bit of dialogue between myself and my fellow Hopping Travellers in the week before a game. This is to decide where we are going to go for our Saturday football entertainment.
Not this week; this week it was The Fox messaging me to say that Crowborough are at home and he will pick me up at 7am. A direct order, almost!
After reading the message and knowing our recent luck with The Crows, I immediately suss out a ‘Plastic Fantastic’ back-up with the feeling in my bones that it will be needed on our fourth attempt to vi...

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