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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Sound the last post! Is anyone bothered on here any more? If you are interested in the latest book or my future projects please email groundsfrenzy@gmail.com

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

A very small number of the limited edition hardbacks of Cropped are on sale at www.footballgroundsfrenzy2.com/product/crop... The paperback edition will be available to buy in August. Celebrating thirty years of publishing books on football grounds. Like the post and I’ll be encouraged to post pics!

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Unlike that other place it’s not possible to see how many people have engaged with a post. With the video of the new book yesterday does the fact there’s no Likes mean nobody’s interested? Please use the Like thing if something is good so it makes it clear it’s worth continuing to post!

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Finally the new book has arrived from the printer - Cropped. 114 pages of ground photos, great images have been drawn out from average shots which have sat in folders all but unwanted. Last few hardback copies available, paperbacks on sale soon. www.footballgroundsfrenzy2.com/product/crop...

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Not new but another ground local to me is railed but as seen no cover.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Just when one bus arrives then another turns up. How about this gem?!

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Any club shops in Kent or South East London on here? I’m ordering a small number of b/w copies of my Football Grounds in Kent. I’ll add more to the order if anyone wants to buy some. A decent profit can be made too. PM for details. Pretty much a one-off chance.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

More visual history from Cropped, the new book. Hardbacks on sale now, paperbacks to follow in the autumn. Themed and sequenced through the book so Outside - Leyton, Stand - T&M, Groundview - Kellingley W, Landscape - Peasedown. Order at www.footballgroundsfrenzy2.com/product/crop...

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Panoramas of stands work too, first from three pics, second from two. Works better than a 6x4 I’d say. Also standard pan, all of Roots Hall.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Four more archive pics of Ryhope, Robin Hood, Dartmouth and Micklefield. Visual history and a tad more in Cropped, details at www.footballgroundsfrenzy2.com/product/crop...

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Another panorama, Cold Blow Lane end at the Den. But is anyone interested on BlueSky now? Just the odd like here and there makes me wonder if the great move from Musk’s thing has stopped.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

And away from promoting my new book Cropped how about some old panoramas too? Here’s Luton Town from around 2008.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Archive photos of Lancaster, Chorley, Polytechnic and Maidstone Utd, taken from the new book Cropped. Available at www.footballgroundsfrenzy2.com/product/crop...

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Thirty years ago today I was in Kent with my daughter taking the final pic for my first grounds book. My eldest daughter took these pics the same day at Wembley watching @boltonwanderers.bsky.social with my wife. Dunno who the guy is; love his reaction to the big win.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Archive pics of Frickley Athletic, Chorley, Denaby Utd and Maidstone United from Cropped, on sale now at www.footballgroundsfrenzy2.com/product/crop... Not a 6x4 in sight - Visual History or Art?

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This is what thirty years of publishing book on football grounds looks like! And over thirty books still available to buy. www.footballgroundsfrenzy2.com/page/buy-the...

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Football Grounds Frenzy

Books on football grounds and stadia, League and non-League, floodlights, postcards, history of football,

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Cropped. Celebrating my 30th anniversary of publishing books on football grounds. A heady mix of visual history, art and self indulgence. www.footballgroundsfrenzy2.com/product/crop... The order for printing is going in shortly and this offer of hardback for paperback expires on Sunday!

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Cropped

The 30th anniversary of publishing books on football grounds. A heady mix of visual history, art and self indulgence.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

My latest book Cropped is at the proof copy stage now and looking good. A special offer has been sent to all previous buyers but if anyone has missed the details please drop me a message.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Remember Leitch crush barriers? Last ones I saw were at Chesterfield in a corner not redeveloped. I mentioned them being worthy of a museum to Simon Inglis. He saved one for Manchester and another for Glasgow. Ten years ago I just had to take a lean!

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The pay gate at Bugle 24 years ago, doesn’t need to be 6x4, #cropped to focus on the ground not the sky and path.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

New book Cropped coming soon, previous buyers will be pleased to hear from me soon. Average pics reworked into something better than a standard 6x4 gives such as this of London Road Maidstone. #cropped

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Cropped - find an ok photo, work to find interest within and crop to improve. Pics don’t have to be 6x4 or 6x4.5. Have a go? #cropped

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The new book Cropped will be off to the printer for a proof copy tomorrow. It celebrates thirty years of publishing books on football grounds and features photos which have been ignored or discarded in that time, cropped to best effect. More details to follow.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

So it can be done! Why can other clubs not follow this lead and create a proper stand at height even if based on these dreadful metal seating units? Well done Morriston, always had a soft spot as a mate played for you circa 1976!

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Bit of a bargain here, possibly the rarest of the books I’ve published, I saw one sold for £50 last year… www.ebay.co.uk/itm/35662699...

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Old school tackle right in front of the Swans fans whose dislike of Savage meant a red card was a good trade-off. Lucky for him he rolled so far he didn’t need to get involved in the afters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZM8...

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Gorka Pintado vs Robbie Savage (nasty tackle)

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The old Crystal Palace Cup Final ground is well known, built in a former decorative fountain. The second fountain was home to a velodrome. Pic from Facebook then the stand in the 50s from my SE London book, available at www.ebay.co.uk/itm/19538327... Action pic was merged from two pics in Photoshop.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This has just popped up as a Facebook memory. 2006 CML Hop at Bentley Colliery.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Around Easter 1995 I took one last photo at New Romney then started tracing maps for a small, home-assembled photocopied publication on football grounds in Kent. A friend called to tell me about a similar but more ambitious mag that he bought on the Northern Hop, the first GT! www.groundtastic.co.uk

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Not just grounds - Average Action shot to cropped version. Full details of ‘how’ will be in the book Cropped. A big 30th Anniversary of Football Grounds Frenzy offer is coming up for previous buyers.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Cropped, new book coming soon. Here are two images from Erith & Belvedere after the fire, one cropped to 46% and the other 54% of the originals, the smaller pics. The 6x4 prints were fine but the sky and foreground can go so the eye now focuses on what’s important in the photos.

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TGS @tgsphoto.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Today's random football ground… Haverhill Rovers FC, Hamlet Croft, pictured in 1987 and 1989. Check out our archive of football ground scans: bit.ly/2TB1VNR #tgsfootball #tgsgrounds

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Postie has just dropped off another excellent Welsh Football courtesy of @welsh-football.bsky.social . Included is a nice review of Football Grounds Frenzy too, available at www.footballgroundsfrenzy2.com/page/buy-the... including a few hardbacks.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

First sample pages from the now book, Cropped. The pic in the book of the amazing Hurlingham Stadium has been cut back to just 78% of the original using a special guiding grid. To find out more about this and the book please message or email.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

For those who have helped me over the past 30 years and those who have bought books from me here’s a preview of Cropped, the book I’m now working on. Grounds don’t always lend themselves to a standard 6x4 print so here are carefully cropped pics which aim to draw the eye into and around the image.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It’s #FloodlightFriday at Tooting & Mitcham back in 1996, pushing the limits with old-school 200 ASA film.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Here’s the set of action photos I mentioned of Crockenhill beating Dartford in 1993. Same league then, six between the clubs now. We played Darts four times before their promotion and won two of the games!

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Rossendale circa 1999, original pic in comment - so much better cropped isn’t it? #FloodlightFriday

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Look which pics I just found… and somehow the Kent County League found that one branch of their league had a division three so popped Maidstone Invicta there as a new club while the reformed Dartford got a Kent League spot. Will have to find the action pics of Crocks beating Darts in Sept 1994!

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Maidstone Invicta / United at London Road, 1996, 1997 and 2000. Haven’t the fallen become mighty.

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Great covered end terrace too at Gravesend & Northfleet as it was in 2002. #TerraceTuesday

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Football Grounds Frenzied @footballgrounds.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

One of my very first ground photos, Gravesend & Northfleet’s Stonebridge Road just after the hurricane in 1987. Proper ground. Proper name for a football club too.

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