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Diary of a Ground Hopper-

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SATURDAY DECEMBER 1ST Avro FC 0 West Auckland Town 2

ANOTHER resolutely grey, drizzle-filled day. I am on my way north along the M1, which seems to have been built to retain the maximum amount of surface water that’s physically possible.
My first task is to get to the Oakwell Training Facility to witness Barnsley’s U-18 side play Leeds United in the EFL Youth League. It’s somewhere I have wanted to visit because AFC Bar nsley used to play there in the Central Midlands League. I never made it thanks to the club folding with just a week to go of the season: the week I was du...

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