I am giving an illustrated talk at the Newark Library on Friday, 15th November, 3.30-5pm ‘The Return to the Hinterlands’ costs just £5, maximum 40 people. no one under 17years, insurance reasons Come and join me, pay at the door, cash only.
My book’ Return to the Hinterlands’ is now available at the National Museum of Football, both in the store and from the on line shop. Non league has a special place in the game in England and so it seems fitting that the book is there. https://shop.nationalfootballmuseum.com/products/return-to-the-hinterlands
Newark Town FC nestles between a leisure centre and a swimming pool and an array of new build housing for the aspirational, with perfect lawns and houses too prim for some but luxury for others. The ground is compact, artificial pitch and two small stands. The game today was more interesting than the surroundings to […]
The Return to Hinterlands -more travels around England’s non-league football grounds, with Chris Towers
I headed off to Spalding for an FA Trophy game versus Alvechurch, arriving in a sun drenched town, in early Autumn, and enjoyed the many charity shops in what looks like quite a deprived town, but enjoyed the visit and the ground was full of warmth with a low key but proud club, who are […]
Games bring memories and associations and for me the game at Harrowby United, in the suburbs of Grantham brought the kindness of strangers, given a lift to the ground when a passer bye offered me a lift and, if perhaps often wary of such lifts I took the offer up and appreciated it. Getting […]
Return to the Hinterlands has now been published, and will be available in shops and outlets soon, this was a labour of love, 24 poems, and occasions, with matches as far and wide as Dover and Oswestry, Cheshunt and Enfield as well as Merseyside, its priced at £10 The first edition is still selling […]
I travelled to Bromsgrove Sporting at the weekend and have a column in the ‘non league paper’ this Sunday, 22nd September. The experience was a good one, an FA Cup qualifying match, 2nd round, with warmth and humour and great hospitality in the press box. This is a fine ground to visit
I have a regular column in ‘the non league paper’ and the latest one was in Sunday, August 25th. It featured a game at Cwmbran where I met some supporters who watched from a smal hillock by pitch side, overlooking a disused stadium. The club were the first winners of the league of Wales. […]
‘ Return to Hinterlands’ the follow up edition to ‘Hinterlands’ is soon to go to print and I am expecting it out in the second half of September. The book focuses on just one season of games 2023/24 and is even more of a labour of love for I travelled far and wide for this […]