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The old company name is still on the gate into the ground.
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The new owners have their standard hoardings on show.
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Though the entrance is the car park. Ahead are the changing rooms & bar, the 11-a-side football pitches are beyond the building.
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Past the building the game is on the pitch further ahead.
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Here we see the back of the pavilion.
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To our right is another pitch, with dugouts. I was told this is the usual pitch for Epsom Athletic. fortunately I class 'groundhopping' at places like this as 'one tick, one complex'; unlike some hoppers who would return to 'tick' each pitch as a different 'ground'.
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Here are the dugouts on that pitch.
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The game tonight is as basic as it gets, partly roped off, no dugouts, just a game of football. I must admit I couldn't watch games at these venues week in, week out. I like to see 'structures' of some sort at 'new grounds' I visit, but end of season 'catch up' early midweekers I don't mind dipping in to.
Here we are at the corner of the pitch, we are going to stroll straight ahead, clockwise, around it.
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A corner flagless corner flag shot!
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A few yards along & it's roped off along this side.
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To the left there are some huts, presumably for pitch maintenance equipment. You can see a working clock on the front of the main structure. Some groundhoppers are to the right side of the snap, watching the game.
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It's a bit weather beaten.
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No dugouts, but the area where they would be are marked out on the grass. Note the picnic table to the left.
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A stand of sorts, utilised as an open air dugout by some of the substitutes!
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The rope continues along the touchline, with players kitbags all together here. Presumably the changing rooms are shared with the goals 5-a-side pitches, so cannot be exclusively secured for Epsom Athletic?
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The rope almost goes as far as the next corner flag.
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To the left there is a 'graveyard' for old pitch equipment, by the look of it.
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It's a long way back to the changing rooms, so players have to make their own toilets! ;-)
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Next flagless corner.
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Before moving on we glance back along the side touchline.
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Completely open behind the goal, not even roped off.
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From the other side of the net we see down the pitch.
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While down the next side we can see it is roped off once more.
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Another picnic table, used by home followers.
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The small crowd is spread out along the rope.
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The rope continues to almost the next corner, like on the other side
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From the end of the rope we look back along the touchline.
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The final corner flag with no flag picture.
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Now heading behind the goal, no rope at all, as with the other end.
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From this end we look to the right hand side, club people on the left, hoppers on the right. Can you tell the difference? ;-)
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The groundhoppers on the other side of the pitch.
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Behind the net.
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And back to the corner flag where we started, although the corner flag is now no more!
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That ends our walk around the ground, just a few action pictures to finish with.
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