FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round Onto this weekend’s second FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round match, a visit to the Racecourse to see the lunchtime kick off between Berks County and their visitors from Clevedon. Berks County were making their first…
Sheerwater v Rusthall
FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round So after a long pre-season, the first day of 24/25 arrived with a trip to Eastwood Leisure Centre for the season opener for both teams and a chance to progress in the FA Cup. A…
Woodley United Ladies v Abingdon United Women
Pre-Season Friendly It’s always a pleasure to catch up with the ladies at Woodley, a team I followed quite extensively in my inaugural season as the Wandering Tractor. There’s always a nice welcome even when they’re not playing at home,…
Yateley United v Camberley Town
Pre-Season Friendly Despite only being six and a half miles from where I live, this was my first visit to Sean Devereux Park, the home of Yateley United. As regular readers will know, I travel to every game via public…
Wycombe Wanderers Women v London Benfica Ladies
Pre-Season Friendly It’s always a pleasure to have a day out at the 1878 stadium in Burnham and having the opportunity to catch up with a few great people I’ve got to know over the past couple of years. This…
Farnborough FC Women v Brentford FC Women
Pre-Season Friendly With the Didcot game being a lunchtime start, it gave me the option of going home or seeing if the trains worked out to allow me to get to this 5pm kick-off. I’d only been alerted this game…
Didcot Town v Winchester City
Pre-Season Friendly My fourth preseason game of 24/25 took me to Didcot for their clash with Winchester City. It took two trains to get me there and all in less than an hour which is a result considering some of…
Maidenhead United Women v Sutton United Women
Pre-Season Friendly Game three, a pre-season friendly and a journey to Cox Green School to see one of the core teams I’ll be following this season in Maidenhead United. Always good to catch up with Ed, Neil and the ladies…
Uxbridge v Hendon
Pre-Season Friendly Game two of the 24/25 season took me to my 39th new ground since this Tractor Boy started wandering, a visit to Honeycroft to check out good things I’ve been hearing about Uxbridge FC. After an uneventful train…
Ashridge Park Women v Farnborough FC Women
Pre-Season Friendly My season wasn’t due to start until the 13th July but that was until I received a message from grassroots legend, photographer Andrew Batt, letting me know Ashridge were playing a friendly against Farnborough and would I like…