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Hatters’ uplifting future

Head groundsman Richard Bird spoke to us during the World Cup break about the pitch ups and downs during his thirty years at Kenilworth Road.

in Football - on 23/2/23

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The Hertsmere

A course borne out of the golf boom in the early 80s has a new name and new image after something of a decline under previous ownership. Neville Johnson...

in Golf - on 21/11/22

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Crawley Town FC

Crawley Town is well established and, for the eleventh year in a row, assured of EFL status next season, sitting comfortably mid-table in League Two. Neville...

in Football - on 29/5/22

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The Os have it

This League Two club is London’s second oldest in the whole of the Football League. Neville Johnson went there to meet Head Groundsman Colin James and...

in Football - on 18/3/22

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The Lord’s way being done

For Pitchcare’s ton-up issue, Neville Johnson visited a place where centuries are given special recognition. A chat with Head Groundsman Karl McDermott...

in Cricket - on 10/1/22

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A record partnership

High scoring partnerships often as not win cricket matches. Experience, fitness and dedication to the cause count for everything. Neville Johnson went...

in Cricket - on 29/11/21

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Bees’ Honey of a pitch

When Brentford FC won the play-off for a place in the Premier League in May it put them back in the top flight of English football where they hadn’t...

in Football - on 17/9/21

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Leisure and golfing feast

One of those much-visited jewels in the crown of historic country properties is Hever Castle in a corner of west Kent. It is best known as the home of...

in Golf - on 4/2/21

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Hats off to Mark

Like all sports, racing is facing up to big changes thanks to Coronavirus. One of National Hunt’s best-loved courses is preparing for an extra change....

in People - on 29/8/20

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Spitfires grounded

Cricket is our summer game; just not this summer. The frustration is most apparent at county level, where all 18 clubs are without income, yet having to...

in Cricket - on 6/7/20

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Oldest school ties

It is said that St Augustine first founded a school here in 597AD and it became the King’s School in 1541 when it was re-founded by Royal Charter under...

in Cricket - on 27/3/20

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National Trust Chartwell

“A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted”. That’s what Sir Winston Churchill said about his family home near Westerham in Kent, which has been...

in Public Places - on 22/1/20

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Spice of life at Saffrons

This delightful multi sports venue on the south coast was, and still is, part of the Duke of Devonshire’s estate, where in Victorian times the most expensive...

in Football - on 20/7/19

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Holmewood House School

This non-selective boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 3-13, set in thirty-two delightfully green acres on the southern fringe of Kent’s...

in People - on 17/6/19

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A Place in history ...

Cricket has been played ‘in the back garden’ of one of England’s foremost stately homes for nearly 300 years. Neville Johnson paid a mid-winter...

in Cricket - on 18/3/19

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300 glorious acres ...

Looking after the vast grounds at one of the country’s foremost independent schools for girls is a truly challenging task. Neville Johnson went there...

in Schools & Colleges - on 15/2/19

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Lord’s treasure Hunt

Exclusive Interview - It’s mid-September. The curtain is about to fall on the 2018 cricket season. One name in the game is about to leave perhaps its...

in Cricket - on 29/10/18

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Shooting Daggers upwards

Only one football ground in the whole country has its nets on display at the National Football Museum. Neville Johnson looks at the relatively short history...

in Football - on 11/10/18

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Downland masterpiece

We visit a classic course where Surrey’s chalky hills offer views of southern England countryside and the London skyline has been sensitively modernised,...

in Golf - on 21/9/18

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Golden age innings

A Sussex country estate mentioned in the Domesday Book a thousand years ago, and world famous for its Capability Brown gardens, has an indelible and lasting...

in Cricket - on 3/8/18


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