A hand holding a pen and three raffle tickets

Free pens with 50-50 tickets at Wroxham FC today (just for enquiring) #sunlife

Christmas has come early! 🎄 If you’ve never heard these before, you’re in for an absolute treat

Pineapple on pizza is one thing, in chocolate is quite another

A bar of the retro confectionery Fry’s Chocolate Cream

Travelled back to the 1940s at the match this afternoon

James Watts Barciela - Plymouth Parkway FC James is a quick, tricky winger that loves to take on defenders, earning the nickname “The Matador”. Starting his football career at 16, with loan spells at Bovey Tracey and Willand Rovers, he’s now e...

At Berkhamsted v Plymouth Parkway this afternoon. The visitors’ star man is a young winger who’s half Spanish. Naturally, his nickname is ‘The Matador’. www.ppfc.co.uk/player/james...

Sign advertising Tooting & Mitcham v Guildford City in the FA Vase

Friday night lights

Bit of the Lighthouse Family at Chesham United to get everyone in the mood

Just to give you an excuse to visit the end of the Metropolitan line again another time, the most direct walking route to Amersham Town’s ground from the station is a right-of-way over a field that crosses the railway tracks (no bridge).

Floodlights outside the home of FCV Dender

Terracing and a seated stand at the Stade Communal, home of RSD Jette

Sandwich menu inside RSD Jette’s clubhouse

Sitting in the main stand at Tempo Overijse

Belgium: come for the football, stay for the cherry beer

An empty patch of soil surrounded by wooden decking

I regret to announce that the tree behind the goal at Tring Athletic has left the stage

Watching the Stockport-Orient tie tonight and the sunset behind the main stand has been a wonderful advert for old grounds with open corners

I’m planning to be at the Hemel-Torquay game this afternoon as a neutral. It was tempting to buy an away ticket just for the fun of it, but I had visions of me needing to maintain an increasingly ludicrous Devon accent to placate a group of bigger boys as the afternoon wore on.

Trying to read that first bread roll: cheese and…ginger?

Lasagne at Hanwell Town FC

Can we add the compulsory serving of lasagne at half-time to the Football Governance Bill, please?

The windmill will certainly be competitive at a higher level if they do go up

PSG v Liverpool screams mid-90s UEFA Cup tie. Tuesday night’s EastEnders moved to BBC2 to make way for Rai and Bernard Lama.

Torrent v Elche Ilicitano (Segunda Federacion) - A Torrent player signals to teammates with his right arm before taking a corner

Valencia v Celta Vigo (La Liga) - Watching play in midfield from high up on the halfway line

Manises v Nou Jove Castello (Lliga Comunitat Valenciana) View from low on the halfway line looking towards a small stand opposite where a few supporters are sitting

Levante v Racing Ferrol (La Liga 2) Racing play a free-kick towards goal from just inside Levante’s half

I visited Valencia recently and saw four games of Spanish football inside 36 hours.

The last time I did that I was working in football analytics. Sure, it wasn’t bad then, but being in the ground beats watching on a laptop.

Another enjoyable blog Ben, keep them coming. You’ve introduced me to a new concept in walking cheese.

I’d forgotten about the lift! The stairs must be too steep/narrow even for a fleet of street escalators, like the ones you see elsewhere.

In an ideal world there’d be another funicular there

I spent a few weeks in Bilbao about 10 years ago when I was between jobs, and Santutxu’s ground wasn’t far from where I was staying. Happy memories of climbing up the big hill from the old town to watch their early kick-offs on a Sunday morning.

A man shovels soil from a wheelbarrow to fill in a hole

At Chipstead v Tooting this afternoon, where a sinkhole seems to have delayed the start of the second half

A wind turbine partially obscured by low-lying mist

Ness Point in Lowestoft, the most easterly point in the United Kingdom

Spectators in winter coats and hats watching play during Lowestoft Town v Barwell

Under floodlights, Barwell and Lowestoft players grapple to head the ball first from a throw-in

Lowestoft Town 1 Barwell 0

“I’ve gone as far east as I can, Lynn”

That sleeve resembling the boss level on an Eno v Cale game on the SNES only enhances the album’s classic status

Still, it was a surprise on more than one level to see Jean-Marie Balestre playing himself

I laughed at the Snetterton scene too - more like a Mario Kart Knockhill

Saw Kuwait play in Maidenhead a few years ago, doubt I’ll ever top that now

The jerk chicken I once had in Lewisham hospital remains a genuinely fond memory from an otherwise bleak period

A football match in progress seen through iron railings

I caught a fleeting glimpse of a training match or behind-closed-doors game that was happening at the old stadium in summer 2010

You simply get a better standard of pre-match mixtape when the competition is sponsored by a record label