Saturday 6th February 2021, 1500 Kick Off Tonbridge Angels FC vs Hampton & Richmond Borough FC The Build Up It’s that time of year again. You know what I mean, the time where matches are being called off for snow and rain on a weekly basis, and it’s impossible to make weekend plans with any... Continue Reading →
Saturday 16th January 2021, 1500 Kick Off Hampton & Richmond Borough FC vs Ebbsfleet United FC The Build Up Like so many matches this season, Hampton’s previous two fixtures, against Concord Rangers and Havant & Waterlooville, had fallen prey to the auspices of a pandemic that you might have heard mentioned a few times recently. ... Continue Reading →
Monday 28th December 2020, 1500 Kick Off Hampton & Richmond Borough FC vs Dulwich Hamlet FC The Build Up Well, it’s fair to say this hasn’t been quite the Christmas we expected, but whilst the rest of life is paused, cancelled or diverted, the juggernaut that is elite sport has continued through the winter period.... Continue Reading →
Sunday 8th November 2020, 1245 Kick Off Hampton & Richmond Borough FC vs Oldham Athletic FC The Build Up 2020/21 is Hampton & Richmond Borough’s 100th year as a football club, and in that milestone season, they qualified for the FA Cup First Round Proper for only the fourth time. At an average of one... Continue Reading →
Saturday 10th October 2020, 1500 Kick Off Hampton & Richmond Borough vs Dartford The Build Up Regular readers of this website will know that I have been delighted to take up the role as Hampton & Richmond’s Club Photographer this season, and as such, have been making fewer entries on these pages. I felt that... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 25th August 2020, 1945 Kick Off Ashford Town (Middlesex) FC vs Hampton & Richmond Borough FC The Build Up The pre-season friendlies are coming thick and fast now, and with the change in government guidelines (did they actually change, or did the FA just interpret them differently?) fans are now officially allowed back in... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 28th January 2020, 1945 Kick Off Hampton & Richmond Borough FC vs Slough Town FC The Build Up My first non-league match of the new decade was supposed to be out in Essex on this cold and windy Tuesday, but due to the continued weird prioritisation of the County Cups, Billericay Town vs Havant... Continue Reading →
Monday 12th November 2018, 1945 Kick Off Hampton & Richmond Borough FC vs Oldham Athletic AFC The Build Up Televised football is a paradoxical thing for a match-attending football fan. On the one hand, matches are played on more days to squeeze in as much glorious cash-generating TV as possible, which means you can get... Continue Reading →
The Vanarama National League South gets underway next Saturday, on the 4th of August, and if this season proves anywhere near as exciting as last we’ll be lucky. Dartford and Havant & Waterlooville going head to head for the title right to the wire. Whitehawk staging an improbable, and ultimately doomed, post-Christmas fight for survival. ... Continue Reading →
Sunday 13th May 2018, 1500 Kick Off Hampton & Richmond Borough FC vs Braintree Town FC The Build Up Today’s match was a special one for me, falling as it did at the same ground as my first ever foray into nonleague football. It was fitting that Beveree Stadium would also host my final blog... Continue Reading →
The Grass Roots Tourist 