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St Newlyn East v Polperro, Duchy League Knockout Cup
There’s a slightly tired, commonly accepted image of all grassroots football clubs as wholesome, salt-of-the-earth, welcoming institutions. That’s not exactly a myth, but there are plenty of clubs out there who seem to consider themselves as self-contained entities, insular and indifferent about the idea of Continue reading “A Thing Well Made”
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”
