James Rees
@footballpyramid
Football watcher. Groundhopper. Arsenal W season ticket holder. One-time 2. Bundesliga analyst. germanpyramid and oxonfootball on the old place. 🌻⚽️🎶🚂🏏🐶. He/him.
🗓 25th July 2026 ⚽️ Atherstone Town vs Highgate United 📍 Sheepy Road, Atherstone 🤝 Game 11 🏟 503 🏆 United Counties League Premier Division South 💷 Groundhop Final Game of the day 🥱
🗓 25th July 2026 ⚽️ Coton Green vs Daventry Town 📍 Dave Henderson Memorial Ground, Tamworth 🤝 Game 10 🏟 502 🏆 United Counties League Premier Division South 💷 Groundhop
🗓 25th July 2026 ⚽️ Ashby Ivanhoe vs Gresley Rovers 📍 NFU Sports Ground, Ashby-de-la-Zouch 🤝 Game 9 🏟 501 🏆 United Counties League Premier Division North 💷 Groundhop First of three games today #UCLHop. 2-0 to the hosts at half time.
🗓 24th July 2026 ⚽️ Moulton vs Northampton ON Chenecks 📍 Brunton Road, Moulton 🤝 Game 8 🏟 500 🥳 🏆 United Counties League Premier Division South 💷 Groundhop A huge personal milestone and first competitive football of the season.
Darren Caan was once a contestant on the civilian version of Pointless. I’m pretty sure both assistants from 2010 were Pointless answers once too.
Whilst on Futbology I’m reminded ten years ago today Oxford played Leicester. Gary Lineker paraded the Premier League trophy at the Kassam Stadium. 2016 was weird.
🗓 18th July 2026 ⚽️ Frome Town vs Worthing 📍 Badgers Hill, Frome 🤝 Game 7 🏟 499 🏆 Friendly 💷 £10 Belatedly completing Southern League Division One South from last season☺️ Frome were the champions and now preparing for Premier South after a year away.
🗓 17th July 2026 ⚽️ Boreham Wood vs Arsenal XI 📍 Meadow Park 🤝 Game 6 🏆 Friendly 💷 £15 First time here not watching the women. Back in the day there would have been first teamers involved for Arsenal, just the kids now.
⚽️ Kidlington 1-1 Didcot Town A hot one. Both goals coming late in the first half. Kidlington a bit sharper having already played a couple of games. Didcot with different XIs in each half.
🗓 11th July 2026 ⚽️ Kidlington vs Didcot Town 📍 Yarnton Road 🤝 Game 5 🏆 Friendly 💷 £5 (PWYW) First time here in a couple of years. First game for the Diddy in pre-season.
🗓 7th July 2026 ⚽️ North Leigh vs Longlevens 📍 Eynsham Park 🤝 Game 4 🏆 Friendly 💷 £5 (don) First time here since season before last. Literally 8 people here half hour before kick off. The rest must just be surfacing from the sofa.
🗓 4th July 2026 ⚽️ Kintbury Rangers vs Abingdon United 📍 Gladstone Recreation Ground 🤝 Game 3 🏆 Friendly 💷 £0 A return visit to the site of my Futbology ‘best game ever’. Kintbury lost that one but doing better for themselves now since their promotion to step 6 last summer.
Phew. Not sure it was worth it just to lose to Mexico. Only the weather is on our side for that.
🗓️ 27th June 2026 ⚽️ Didcot Town training session 📍 Loop Meadow Stadium, Didcot No game due to cricket later but still nice to do something football first.
My setup for tonight. Somehow the Germans have mastered streaming live to the point they’re ahead of BBC and ITV on the TV here! ITVX still required for the Senegal game though.
Back at the speedway tonight. Cheetahs hosts Redcar Bears. Found a spot in the shade. 🥵
Full time 3-3. The hosts came back from 3-1 down. I think the various groundhoppers there might have depleted their supplies of pin badges!
🗓 20th June 2026 ⚽️ Ely Rangers vs Lliswerry 📍 Station Road, Wenvoe 🤝 Game 2 🏟 498 🏆 Friendly
Oxford Cheetahs 41-49 Glasgow Tigers In case anyone here cares about Speedway. Tigers’ reserves the difference. Hopefully back next week.