Steve Sharman
@liberoacademica
Football Writer Gambling Psychologist (Loughborough Uni) Cheeseburger Connoisseur Faux groundhopper Derby County fan Words in Glory, Hopper's Guide, Terrace Edition, Outside Write, & others.
Dunmow Town 2 Athletic Newham 5 (at Heybridge) First competitive game of 25/26 - Thurlow Nunn Div1 South. Dunmow 2 up early on before visitors found feet, got level, then totally dominated. Could have been more! Decent game in roasting temperatures #nonleague #groundhopping #photography #Essex
Quorn 0 Spalding United 3 The smell of tobacco, the sound of old men farting, and scalding my tongue on bovril. How I've missed non league!! 😂😂 (Even if it was a only a preseason friendly) #groundhopping #photography #tshirtweather #preseason #nonleague
Finally got around to this.. I now own a very very small part of a brilliant football club ⚽️❤️ @claptoncfc.co.uk Looking forward to my first trip to the Old Spotted Dog this season.
Bit late to this, but here's my @futbologyapp.bsky.social 25/26 summary: Not a bad effort, and quite a good grounds:new grounds ratio. (Pretty sure that most seen team will change next season 😬😬) #futbology #groundhopping #nonleague #matchhopping
Ok, only noticed this during the mirror task on a recent episode of #taskmaster One of these tattoos belongs to @alexhorne.bsky.social. The other belongs to me, my first one done about 28 years ago. Both on the upper left arm. Identical tattoo. Identical positions. But whose is whose?? #tattoos
HJK Helsinki 1 IFK Mariehamn 0 Stop me if you think you've heard this one before. Goalless at HT, Helsinki score early 2nd half pen then withstand late pressure to claim 3 points. Exactly the same as wednesday! #veikkausliiga #Finland #groundhopping #photography #HJK
HJK Klubi 04 0 PK-35 Helsinki 1 Visitors hold on for 3 points to go top of #Ykkosliiga despite being reduced to ten men. It was pretty cold, but the #Finnish folk were eating ice lollies at half time. Levels, I guess!! 😂 #Finland #Helsinki #Scandinavia #groundhopping #photography
Big question is, how many games is too many for a Saturday in Helsinki??!! 😂 #groundhopping #Finland #Veikkausliiga
Southend 0 Wealdstone 0 (Southend win on penalties) 180 minutes, ZERO goals. Can't lie, this was a bit of a slog. Wealdstone missed first 2 pens in shootout, hard to recover from that. Southend back to Essex as champs #FATrophy #nonleague #Wembley #photography #groundhopping
Cockfosters 0 AFC Stoneham 0 (Stoneham win 4-2 on pens) Hampshire side triumph on penalties after goalless 90 minutes #favase #nonleague #matchhopping #groundhopping #photography
Cottesmore AFC 3 Lutterworth Athletic Res 2 (AET - 2-2 @90 mins) Extra time belter seals Leicester Senior League cup win for Cottesmore which is good, because I never fully trust reserve teams in cup finals. (This is also called the Tiger League final 😂) #groundhopping #Leicester #photography
Quorn 2 Loughborough Students 0 A soft penalty, an own goal, and a decent sizzling sausage. Quorn seal Leicestershire cup victory with comfortable victory. I forgot my coat, and it was bloody cold. #groundhopping #Leicester #photography #cupfinal
Glossop North End 2 Ilkeston Town 2 (Ilkeston win 3-1 on pens) Dramatic climax of #Derbyshire Senior Cup final after step 5 #Glossop hold step 3 #Ilkeston in 90 mins at cold and blustery Pride Park #nonleague #photography #penalties #final #NPL #NWCL
Maldon & Tiptree 4 Gorleston 1 Maldon stay 3 points clear with 1 game left, with a GD that is +15 better than 2nd. Although not mathematically assured of promotion, it would take some absolutely extraordinary to stop the #Jammers now. #nonleague @isthmianleague.bsky.social #photography #champions
Thats a hell of a diversion for a game 'on the way home' 😬😬😂 (Massive game for Maldon & Tiptree though...) #nonleague #groundhopping @isthmianleague.bsky.social
Alfreton 2 Buxton 2 Slopey pitch, 15-year-olds in Burberry, excellent pin-badge sale, and a decent game in a cracking atmosphere. Home side withstood immense pressure from visitors and could have nicked it themselves - draw helped neither side #groundhopping #nonleague #NLN #photography
Heybridge Swifts 0 Maldon & Tiptree 4 Dark day for Heybridge as relegation to @essexsenior.bsky.social confirmed after crushing home defeat vs neighbours Maldon & Tiptree. Jammers stay top. #groundhopping @allessexfooty.bsky.social @isthmianleague.bsky.social #nonleague #photography
Maldon & Tiptree 1 Takeley 1 Takeley snatch deserved injury time equaliser against well below par Maldon under the terrifying flagwork of Slender Man. #nonleague #slenderman #horrorshow #groundhopping #photography @isthmianleague.bsky.social
Agreed. Also realised I didn't put the best one in the post. I like this one:
Shepshed Dynamo 2 Belper Town 1 A fantastic club shop, chips IN a cheeseburger, a flurry of late goals; a black n white army, sheepshaggers, funny chants, moody skies, all at Butthole Lane. Think I might have found my up norf' #nonleague team! #groundhopping #photography #NPL @thenpl.bsky.social
Oldham Athletic 3 Notts County 0 Confession time. I've never tried Bovril. That is until last night when @joshbland13.bsky.social made @sashaclicks.bsky.social and I try it. I will no longer be drinking anything else. Ever. Decent game and atmosphere too. #groundhopping #EFL #Oldham #Latics
Late into #Manchester for the @fairgameuk.bsky.social conference tomorrow.
Maldon & Tiptree 3 Bowers & Pitsea 0 Dominant first half sees Jammers win the battle of the ampersand against in-form Bowers #nonleague @isthmianleague.bsky.social #photography #groundhopping
Heybridge Swifts 1 Tilbury 2 Managed to drag the birthday party to Scraley Road. It was cold, scrappy, and ended in 10 men and another home defeat for Swifts despite taking the lead after Tilbury missed a peno. #nonleague #penalty @isthmianleague.bsky.social #groundhopping #photography
Anstey Nomads 3 Mickleover 1 Four goals, a ridiculous red card, a last minute consolation penalty, and a half time pizza ticket that had the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. #nonleague #groundhopping #photography #NPL
Heybridge Swifts 0 Takeley 1 High on effort low on quality; Swifts' survival hopes dealt hammer blow after scrappy home defeat. @isthmianleague.bsky.social #nonleague #photography #groundhopping #matchhopping #Essex