FOLLOWING THE SALTMEN

UhlSport Hellenic League – Premier Division

3pm Saturday 25th October 2025

Oaklands Park, Gloucester Rd, Bristol, BS32 4AG.

It doesn’t seem long since I last wrote a preview of a Spa v Glass game. In fact it was only five weeks ago. Not a huge amount has changed in that time. Saturday’s game will still be a six pointer between the sides occupying the top two positions in the table. This time Glass are in the box seat by virtue of goals scored, as the respective goal differences are the same.

The game at Kingys finished in a fine 4-1 victory for the Saltmen following one of their best performances of the season so far. You can bet next week’s wages that the Glass will be keen on avenging that defeat on Saturday.

Unusually, both sides enter the game on the back of 2-1 defeats. The Saltmen losing away in the Vase and the Glass conceding in the 97th minute, losing out to Pegasus.

Glass play home games at Oaklands Park, which is also HQ for the Gloucestershire FA. Photos on t’internet show a modern stadium with a 4G pitch. There looks to be plenty of covered standing and seating available and it could not be more conveniently sited. According to AA Routeplanner it is exactly 60 miles from Kingys to the ground.

Directions:

1. Take M5 Southbound.

2. Stay on M5 to Junction 16 (making sure to drive past the dreadful Gloucester services).

3. At J16 take the third exit A38 towards Gloucester.

4. After about 100 yards take the first left here…

5. Go straight on for another 100 yards or so until you get here…

Barring hold ups it should take 60 minutes. That would be at AA approved speeds rather than FTS ‘driving thru Leigh Sinton after the Pegasus game’ speed!

That’s nice and easy. I might not even need Siri to guide me.

See you there.

Cheers

FTS

Remember Kids…

So does horse and charlie and crack and acid and ecstasy and some forms of domestic solvent.

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