[Football] Mousehole AFC

[The Clamp]

May have found my new underdog to cheer on…

“Perched on a hill overlooking the tip of Cornwall with the Atlantic stretching far beyond, Mousehole AFC is a world away from top-flight football.

The most westerly club in the English leagues is staffed mainly by volunteers, is financed by a campsite in a field next door and serves only locally made pasties in the tea hut – although it did once host a friendly against Manchester United in 1987”

Tiny Mousehole AFC rises up football leagues – but potholes are a problem

Cornwall club attracts players from across UK and may be promoted but needs to fix road to campsite that funds it

www.theguardian.com

 

[Me and my Monkey]

The home of star-gazy pie and a heroic cat.

 

[Albion my Albion]

The home of star-gazy pie and a heroic cat.

Were they on the menu at the Springfield, Ohio Haitian legal immigrants breakfast bar at Dole?

 

[Peteinblack]

May have found my new underdog to cheer on…

“Perched on a hill overlooking the tip of Cornwall with the Atlantic stretching far beyond, Mousehole AFC is a world away from top-flight football.

The most westerly club in the English leagues is staffed mainly by volunteers, is financed by a campsite in a field next door and serves only locally made pasties in the tea hut – although it did once host a friendly against Manchester United in 1987”

Tiny Mousehole AFC rises up football leagues – but potholes are a problem

Cornwall club attracts players from across UK and may be promoted but needs to fix road to campsite that funds it

www.theguardian.com

Lovely little village south of Penzance, overlooking the bay which forms the harbour.

Several Mousehole locals, who volunteered on the local lifeboat, were victims in the 1981 Penlee disaster, when all the crew of the Solomon Browne lifeboat lost their lives in hurricane force winds and mountainous seas, trying to rescue the crew of a ship whose engines had failed, and was drifting dangerously close to the rocks in treacherous seas.

https://rnli.org/about-us/our-history/timeline/1981-penlee-lifeboat-disaster.

First ever holiday Mrs Peteinblack and I had together was renting an old fisherman's cottage in Mousehole, looking over the pretty little harbour, with the wonderful Ship Inn as our local pub for the week.

 

[tedebear]

Just googled them expecting a mouse related logo/badge or crest, but they are Seagulls too! All the more reason!!

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Just googled them expecting a mouse related logo/badge or crest, but they are Seagulls too! All the more reason!!

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Is that a gull? Its beak looks a bit stubby...

 

[WATFORD zero]

Is that a gull? Its beak looks a bit stubby...

Well of course, It's the Cornwall stubby beaked gull

 

[The Clamp]

I’m going down to that area next year so I’m going to try and get along to a match.

If only to compare the catering.

 

[tedebear]

Is that a gull? Its beak looks a bit stubby...

On their club history its "seagulls":

CLUB HISTORY - MOUSEHOLE AFC

MOUSEHOLE AFC – “THE SEAGULLS”: A BRIEF HISTORY Mousehole AFC was founded in September 1922, so the 2022/23 season marks its centenary. A well-attended exhibition organised by the Mousehole Archive was held on the anniversary, displaying a huge collection of photographs, news items and...

www.mouseholeafc.co.uk

 

[Bodian]

Is that a gull? Its beak looks a bit stubby...

Well of course, It's the Cornwall stubby beaked gull

A seagull nicked my chips in Mousehole back in the summer of 1993.

 

[ElectricNaz]

Isn't Mousehole one of those places where the locals swear it's pronounced differently to how you assume?

Like Moo-shawl or Maw-shole or something?

 

[Bodian]

Isn't Mousehole one of those places where the locals swear it's pronounced differently to how you assume?

Like Moo-shawl or Maw-shole or something?

mowzel I think.

Up our way we have a place called Torpenhow. It's pronounced 'trepenna'. And to add to the fun there is a small hill nearby called Torpenhow Hill - which actually means 'hill hill hill hill'.

 

[ElectricNaz]

mowzel I think.

Up our way we have a place called Torpenhow. It's pronounced 'trepenna'.

No it isn't

Yeah that's it. Can't remember where I've heard that about Mousehole considering I've never been there. Maybe QI or something

 

[Bodian]

No it isn't

Yeah that's it. Can't remember where I've heard that about Mousehole considering I've never been there. Maybe QI or something

Quite likely - as Torpenhow Hill was also on QI....

 

[Change at Barnham]

I was down there on holiday in 2021 and saw them in an FA Cup game.
It's a lovely little ground, with a nice cricket club next door.

I think it's pronounced moow-sall. (but not sure)

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Think that has a few reports about the club in the Non League paper ?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I misread the thread title, I was expecting this to be about Stoke.

 

[Jack Straw]

When will they retrieve that beach-ball from the guttering?

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I’m going down to that area next year so I’m going to try and get along to a match.

If only to compare the catering.

The pasties will be good! My brother-in-law lives in Cornwall and his wife is of Cornish origin. They always make sure we have some PROPER pasties when we visit.

 

[Arthur]

If ever a place needed a one way system it's Mousehole.

Very pretty place though.