New Video: All About My Groundhop Soccer Tours
The whole core of my mission here is to connect people to communities and each other through watching soccer. And that is done, in its purest form, in my English…
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Groundhopper Soccer Guides is your gateway to the world of English soccer. We publish a guidebook, help you plan your trip, sell you tickets and can even take you to a game!
The 2020-21 Edition of My Book is Now on Presale
Having sold the last copy of this season’s guidebook, I am now ready to launch the presale of the 2020-21 edition of The Groundhopper Guide to Soccer in England. Of…
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EnglishSoccerGuide.com is now GroundhopperGuides.com
There’s a subtle but important change here at Soccer HQ: My website is exactly the same, but it can now be found at groundhopperguides.com instead of the original englishsoccerguide.com. The…
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My 2019-20 English Soccer Guidebook is Now For Sale!
The 2019-20 edition of my book, The Groundhopper’s Guide to Soccer in England, is now for sale on my site and elsewhere. In fact, for the first time you can also…
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English Soccer Games I Have Seen
Here is a list of every football soccer game I’ve seen in the UK. As of February 2020, I have seen 126 games at 69 different grounds around England and Wales,…
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My English Soccer Pin Badge Collection
Above is a photo of my pin badge collection, as of November 2019, from the English soccer clubs I have visited since 2014. I’ve seen well over 100 games at…
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About the Author, Paul Gerald
This whole thing actually started from my core mission in life: Go to interesting places, do interesting things, meet interesting people, then share the story and maybe help others do…
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Shipping Out the Book — and a Little “Behind the Scenes” at Groundhopper Soccer Guides
The 2019-20 edition of my English soccer guidebook, The Groundhopper’s Guide to Soccer in England, is now available on my site and elsewhere. And that’s one reason my blog and newsletter…
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Groundhopper 51: Say Hello to the New Book!
Issue #51 of my Groundhopper English soccer newsletter is out. In this issue: Getting to know the 2019-20 edition of The Groundhopper’s Guide. A video from historic Goodison Park I have…
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Here’s a Sample Chapter From My 2019-20 English Soccer Guidebook
As the new edition of my English soccer guidebook goes to print, I figured I would share a sample chapter — in this case, a new club profile on Gillingham…
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