Fry Club 6 – 1 Stockwood Wanderers
Somerset County League – Premier Division
Saturday 24th August 2019
Somerdale Pavilion, Keynsham
Attendance: ~45 (headcount)
The Season So Far:
Fry Club came into this match off the back of two heavy losses, conceding 10 and scoring none in the process. Their only point so far coming from the opening game away at Middlezoy. Stockwood had fared better with two draws and a win away at Clutton in the bag so far. Would this be a sign of things to come?
Keynsham Town 2 – 1 Roman Glass St George
Western League – Premier Division
Tuesday 20th August 2019
Crown Fields, Keynsham
Attendance: 101
The Season So Far:
Keynsham Town were promoted to the Western League Premier Division at the end of last season. On the opening day they were handed a tough away game against Bradford Town which the Wiltshire side won 4-2. The K’s bounced back a few days later with a 2-0 home win over Wellington. The extra-preliminary round saw a local derby with Keynsham at home against league rivals Brislington. Town would have been disappointed to crash out after a 0-1 loss. Their most recent game saw them come up against Street who last season were voluntarily relegated from the Southern League. This match finished 2-1 to the Somerset side.
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Bath City 1 – 1 Forest Green Rovers
Preseason Friendly
Saturday 27th July 2019
Twerton Park, Bath
Attendance: 366
It was looking like I would be going without seeing my beloved Bath City in preseason for the first time in a long while. As it was, my friend Jason is back for a few weeks, visiting from South Korea suggested we go to the Romans’ penultimate warm up game against League 2’s Forest Green Rovers. I didn’t take much persuasion so I hopped on the train to Bath.
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Warminster Town 0 – 2 Bemerton Heath Harlequins
Preseason Friendly
Thursday 18th July 2019
Weymouth Street, Warminster
Attendance: ?
If you were going by kits alone, this could have been AC Milan versus Juventus. But in what Serie A game can you hear every word the players are saying to each other? Every word the managers are barking at their players? Every conversation between referee and player? I knew i’d rather be at Weymouth Street than the San Siro.
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Cadbury Heath 2 – 0 Cadbury Athletic
Preseason Friendly
Saturday 13th July 2019
Springfield, Bristol
Attendance: ~75 (headcount)
I love a gimmick. That is not to say that everything about this fixture was gimmickry – Heath are celebrating their 125th anniversary this year, and Athletic their 25th. Perhaps the more obvious reason for these two teams to be facing off is the partially shared name and therefore the connotations with chocolate. Bristol-based Heath have been on my radar for a while, being on the easier-to-access side of the city for me, while the visitors today had travelled down from the southern reaches of Birmingham for this fixture. For the forthcoming season the home side will be competing in level 9 of the pyramid (Western League Premier), while Athletic are currently one step lower in the Midland League Division 1.
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Bradford Town 0 – 3 Hungerford Town
Preseason Friendly
Tuesday 9th July 2019
Trowbridge Road, Bradford-on-Avon
Attendance: ?
Anyone would’ve thought it had been over two months since I’d last been to a football match; my camera was out of battery and I forgot my notebook. All this meant was I had to rely on my camera’s phone, and with this being a summer’s evening, the light didn’t start to fade until well into the game and the photos came out alright. I cobbled together some bits of paper and dug out a pen – my notebook for the evening.
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