Jon the badger

17 May 2026 And so, for the very final time this season – a trip to Wembley in glorious sunshine to watch AFC Stoneham in their bid for Vase glory to add to a league title and two other local cups along the way. I’m not actually sure who needs a report from this one, most people of a Purp persuasion were in attendance and it was even live on TNT! But I went, so I write, that’s the gig. A tight, cagey game. Stoneham looked the more nervous in the early stages but they set

15 May 2026 Welcome back to the blog – been a while, hasn’t it! 11 whole days since Hamble Club won the League Cup Final. Since then, AFC Stoneham have bounced back from that defeat by winning two finals (Russell Cotes and Southampton Senior) and they’re busy preparing for Sunday at Wembley in what is, presumably, the biggest day in the club’s history. And we’ve also had the league allocations for Step 5 in 2026/27, which sees quite a few changes for the Wessex. The most

4 May 2026 OK so it’s been nine days since I had a report for you. What’s happened in those nine days? Well, Fareham and Stoneham made it through to the Russell Cotes Cup final, due to be played this Thursday. Fleetlands duly wrapped up the Division One title, congratulations to them (and for us, the joys of Powder Monkey Park!). And in the playoffs, Whitchurch won away at flying Follands; and Yateley beat Colden Common in a fixture which had to be reversed because (long