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Diary of a Ground Hopper: Altrincham v Notts County

I fancy witnessing Notts County’s annual televised humiliation in the FA Cup, so I bag a couple of tickets for the Altrincham game in the first round.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
15 November 2026

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH

ALTRINCHAM 2 NOTTS COUNTY 2
I fancy witnessing Notts County’s annual televised humiliation in the FA Cup, so I bag a couple of tickets for the Altrincham game in the first round.
It is then that The Fox plays a blinder and discovers a Manchester League Division One fixture just a few hundred yards from Alty. Get in!
That’s how I find myself ploughing through thick fog on the A50 with The Fox in the passenger seat spraying sausage roll crumbs in the Hoppermobile.
We park up at Moss Lane in bright sunshine, though, and have a quick peak at Altrincham’s stadium in a...

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