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Welcome to The Lip. Leatherhead FC's alternative "unofficial" website. Up the Tanners!

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Tanners 4 - 0 South Park

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Leatherhead put out a strong side last night - in hindsight a cruelly strong side - in order not to repeat past slip ups in the FA and Surre...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

South Park are coming

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Surrey Senior Cup night tonight and so far it seems it is on.  I have no idea what to expect with some players, probably, who will not be ab...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Bowers & Pitsea 3 - 0 Tanners

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Not even updating my spreadsheet for a new ground visited could lift m y spirits following this dismal defeat. Some people likened this perf...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Travelling Tanners

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Bowers & Pitsea means the new ground klaxon sounds again! Leatherhead travel into Essex with a boosted strike force. Sherringham adds Le...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

Game off

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Surprise turned into optimism turned into farce as the game got called off at 2.10 today. I arrived at the Grove at 1.30 to sit down with a ...

Horsham are coming!

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I'm amazed. An early pitch inspection passes for the first time in living memory, but with Storm Denis looming large I hope it isn't...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Tanners 1 - 1 Ks

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Four security staff greeted me on arrival at The Grove last night.  They were on amber alert - because someone had tweeted rude words about...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Ks are coming

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Our old lodgers turn up tonight and, judging by their preview , will need all 200 stewards to enable their fans to find their way around our...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Tanners 3 - 1 Bishop's Stortford

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Not the best preparation for our visitors as they parted company with their player-manager, Jamie Cureton.  The sudden departure and unusual...
Saturday, February 08, 2020

Bishop’s Stortford are coming

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Leatherhead mastered alchemy last week; turning a scrap heap of a first half into second half gold. We've brought in a few new players t...
Saturday, February 01, 2020

Cheshust 1 - 3 Tanners

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A long journey to arrive to a new ground that hasn't quite found its place in life to see a game that took a long time to find its way. ...
Friday, January 31, 2020

Travelling Tanners

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NEW GROUND KLAXON! Tomorrow we travel to Cheshunt FC, a side that came up via the play-offs; beating Bracknell 3-0 in the final.  Our new fr...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Tanners 3 - 0 Sutton

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Sutton United sent fringe players and a group of young boys to do a man's work at Fetcham Grove in the Surrey Senior Cup. It wasn...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Tanners 0 - 0 Merstham

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I had the song of "...and we've still got Nikki on the bench" should we have raced to a comfortable lead against Merstham, but...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Merstham are coming

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The Mick Sullivan Derby tomorrow, with the visit of Merstham. Barry Hayles left the pitch after the away fixture in a rather marked manner; ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Worthing 2 - 0 Tanners

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Even by Leatherhead's past standards of League Cup squads, this was a weak line up to face high flying Worthing .  Not brought about th...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Travelling Tanners

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I misread this fixture as being a league fixture, but it is the league cup... a fixture that Worthing once walked off after the lino's c...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Hornchurch 1 - 1 Tanners

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Another There Or There-abouts derby and a well earned, hard fought point.  When we lost Ibz et al, we needed players to step up and I was ki...
Monday, January 13, 2020

Tanners 1 - 2 Bognor Regis

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Now.  How do I write this up? Leatherhead went into this game after two game against lower opposition where we struggled without our target ...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

Bognor Regis are coming!

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A wind-swept Grove welcomes our visitors today, when we take on Bognor Regis. After one of the best comebacks we've seen over the past t...
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