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Clive wasn't sure who he was cheering for here. He has a season ticket for Hallam but was born in Consett. Maybe it's just as well the game finished 1-1

Spectator accommodation at Wigtown & Bladnoch. Fairly sure one of those women is the mother of the W&B left back.

It's Red Card's Page 3 Girl!

Linda Smith was from Erith, which would appear to have 2 football teams but doesn't have any. Erith Town play at Thamesmead, and Erith & Belvedere at Welling. So why aren't they called Thamesmead Town and Welling FC? I don't know.

Gala Fairydean Rovers are not having a great season in the Lowland League but they do have this famous brutalist stand to be proud of. Gala Rugby Club play next door with more success but at a less memorable ground.

Here's a closer look at that abandoned stand at Balgreen Park, former home of Tarff Rovers. It looks like somebody forgot to close the dressing room window 22 years ago.

A balmy April evening in Newton Stewart, where Lochar Thistle's emergency goalie and his defenders withstood a battering to win 3-2 after a cracking match.

One of the nice things about a 2pm kick off in October is a good light in which to take a picture of a stone circle on the way home.

...while this is my friend Jo, who comes from Eltham. There is a team there but it's not called Eltham Town or Rovers or United. No. Eltham's local side is Cray Valley Paper Mills FC.

Pontypool, where they prefer Rugby Union. Can't make head nor tail of it myself but the view is lovely.

This photograph shouldn't be here because (a) it's a professional press picture and (b) the arm belongs to Belgium's number 1 goalkeeper, but animals invading pitches do make good photos. The stupider tabloids called this a "giant rat" which it clearly is not. It's an average-sized brown rat (rattus norvegicus), not to be confused with the non-native black rat (rattus rattus) whose fleas caused the Great Plague of 1665. The rats didn't cause the infection themselves; they died of it in even greater numbers than people in Derbyshire and London.

This one lives in Cardiff, and doesn't have the Plague.