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Photo credit: Jan Pedersen
Photo credit: Jan Pedersen

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Gladiators, Are You Ready?
By mid-October 2025, everything was in place. The 1st team were due to have an open (ie any fan could attend) training session on the...
Duncan Saunders
6 days ago1 min read
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It's coming home, football's coming home
In early October 2025 it was announced that the first 1st team match on the new pitch would be on 18th October 2025 vs Dulwich Hamlet....
Duncan Saunders
Oct 81 min read
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You've got to roll with it
At the start of October 2025 the pitch was ready, with goals, corner flags and dugouts in place. The pitch surface passed a ball roll...
Duncan Saunders
Oct 31 min read
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White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
By the end of the last full week of September 2025, the pitch was fully laid, and the white line makings applied. WE HAVE A FOOTBALL...
Duncan Saunders
Sep 261 min read
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The magic carpet ride
By late September 2025, the laying of the playing surface was nearing completion with a majority of the playing surface covered. There...
Duncan Saunders
Sep 231 min read
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The green, green grass of home
Well would you believe it?! Just when you thought nothing was going on, the first grass got laid (we all remember our first time!). Even...
Duncan Saunders
Sep 201 min read
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The perimeter track goes round the outside, round the outside.....
In a week when some were hoping the carpet was going to be laid, there appeared to be little to no activity on the playing surface. Does...
Duncan Saunders
Sep 181 min read
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Pitch Perfect arrives
By the middle of September, the 'carpet' arrived ready to be rolled out. A momentous moment!! Pictures credit: Clive Arnold Where it was...
Duncan Saunders
Sep 151 min read
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1 week, 2 shocks
In the week that Folkestone Invicta knocked 1-league-higher Maidstone United, out of the FA Cup, the shock pad was laid on the pitch at...
Duncan Saunders
Sep 121 min read
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Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ on (but the Rent?)
Early September 2025, and after the excitement of the Tarmac being laid, nothing. There was a transporter with a small tipper waiting on...
Duncan Saunders
Sep 41 min read
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Return of the (Tar)mac
During the middle of the last week of August, and a week later than expected, the Tarmac laying started, to cover the area of the new...
Duncan Saunders
Aug 301 min read
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No news is............no good
Entering the Bank Holiday weekend at the end of August 2025, it seems that there had been very little activity for another week. Just as...
Duncan Saunders
Aug 221 min read
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Mid-Summer break
Start of the working week in the middle of August 2025, and the urgent activity of creating the 3G pitch...........appears to have...
Duncan Saunders
Aug 121 min read
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Space. The final frontier.....
On the opening weekend of the Isthmian Premier League season, Folkestone Invicta were away, so not at their home ground. Mind you, if...
Duncan Saunders
Aug 101 min read
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Mind the gap!
On 7th August 2025 work on the enlarged perimeter appeared to be started. There had been some discussion (eg on the Folkestone Invicta...
Duncan Saunders
Aug 71 min read
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Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge...
On 6th August 2025, video updates appeared to show that the surface was now flat, but these was a large area on the Grandad Stand side of...
Duncan Saunders
Aug 61 min read
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The Dispatch hatch the catch for the match 3G pitch
5 days after the official club update on the pitch progress came out, Folkestone Dispatch published a detailed interview with Folkestone...
Duncan Saunders
Aug 61 min read
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Pump up the volume, pump it up
On 5th August 2025, now that the dainage system was in place, there appeard to be a pipe going in. Or was it going out? With the pipe...
Duncan Saunders
Aug 51 min read
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All quiet on the 3G front
No need for weekend working to get the 3G pitch ready it seems. The first weekend of August 2025 and it seems that we have a flat surface...
Duncan Saunders
Aug 31 min read
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Here comes the drain. Here it comes again
By the end of July 2025, it appeared that the drainage had been set in place. This was confirmed by an official update from the club. 3G...
Duncan Saunders
Aug 11 min read
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