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Penzance v Wendron United, South West Peninsula League Premier Division West
Imagine a parallel universe in which, say, Tranmere Rovers found themselves newly owned by a minted sheikh. Ready to conquer European football, but with their immediate grand ambitions constrained by their location and the Continue reading “Standing in the Way of Control”
Foxhole Stars v Gorran, Duchy League Knockout Cup 1st round
There’s something about Foxhole that, for me, makes them the classic Cornish village football team. It’s certainly something to do with their long history and periods of success, but it’s also about their integral place in a changing community.
Storm v St Agnes, Trelawny League Division 3
Tony Howard, who took on the player-manager role at Storm FC at the start of the season, is on the touchline of the Roskear pitch waiting to see if he’ll have enough players to fill the teamsheet for today’s game. These are troubled times for the club. Relegated last season, now after just seven games in the Continue reading “Stormy Weather”
Of all the idyllic spots that host football matches in Cornwall – the seascapes of Boscastle and Pendeen, the chocolate box riverside backdrop of Calstock, the rolling farmland of Week St Mary and Altarnun – there’s one whose renown Continue reading “The Thing About Nanpean”
St Keverne v Goonhavern Athletic, Trelawny League Division 1
“Football stinks, to be honest. It stinks. But I’m here because I still want to see St Keverne have a football team.”
Most people involved in the grassroots game will allow themselves the occasional moan about the state of the sport today, but for Morris Thomas, St Continue reading “Power, Corruption and Lies”
When I’m taking photographs of grassroots football it’s one of the few times I enter the mythical ‘zone’, senses focused entirely on what’s going on before me, the rest of the world elsewhere. Obviously I’m concentrating visually, but Continue reading “‘We Need Voices!’: The Ritual of The Talking”
St Buryan v Camborne School of Mines, Trelawny League Premier Division
A place can get a bad name. St Buryan, a village midway between Penzance and Lands End, surrounded by the ancient landscape of West Penwith, is perhaps most renowned, among cineastes at least, for being Straw Dogs country. It was the location for Sam Peckinpah’s infamous 1971 film about Continue reading “West of the Fields”
Tregony v Looe Town, Duchy League Division 4
The village of Tregony, ‘the gateway to the Roseland peninsula’, despite lying only a mile or two south of the main Truro-St Austell road, can seem a bit out on a limb. In footballing geography the Roseland lies on the south-western Continue reading “Travellin’ Man”
Threemilestone v Hayle, Trelawny League Division 1
As places to play football go, Boscawen Park in Truro is not too shabby. The pitches are reached via a walk passing through the park’s tidy flower beds and kids’ playground. To the east are tree-lined hills and to the west the tidal mudflats of the Truro River. The southern edge of the park, where the river Continue reading “Bring The Boys Home”
