Many thanks
to everyone who made a pledge for Hopping for Moorfields during the 2012-13
football season. This is about raising
money to support the world-class scientific research fund at this London
hospital, for which benefits ultimately extend worldwide. Most people pledged a fixed amount per goal
but there were a few other categories and criteria – here is the final tally
and the request for payment. It looks
like the final total will be around £650.
Please accept my grateful thanks in
advance, and let me have your contributions as soon as you can. It is a brilliant collective effort. I am sending discreet reminders out later
today by email or Twitter DM.
The final
number of goals seen was 191, so the penny-a-goal pledges are worth £1.91
each. Most sponsors chose a fixed
amount-per-goal.
Amount Pledged per
Goal
|
Total
|
1p
|
£1.91
|
2p
|
£3.82
|
3p
|
£5.73
|
4p
|
£7.64
|
5p
|
£9.55
|
10p
|
£19.10
|
25p
|
£47.75
|
50p
|
£95.50
|
Here are
the other end-of-season totals that affect certain sponsors:
Number of Grounds with Visible Farm
Animals
|
2
|
Clear evidence
from Larkhall Athletic but I am counting the duck next to Hadleigh United
which was clearly happily domesticated
|
Dutchmen or Belgians encountered
during the season
|
4
|
See
Stamford
|
Number of Castlecroft Rangers
players seen
|
20
|
Including
unused subs! This grassroots post became the biggest hit of the season.
|
Number of games with exactly 3 goals
|
13
|
See the
full list elsewhere in this post.
|
Number of games with 8 or more goals
|
1
|
Trafford
5 Spennymoor T 3
|
Number of grounds with covered terraces
or standing
|
32
|
|
Number of 0-0 draws
|
3
|
At
Newport County, and my Boxing Day double at Wisbech T and AFC Sudbury
|
Number of bicycle kick goals
|
0
|
|
Number of somersault goal
celebrations
|
0
|
|
Number of goals scored by
goalkeepers
|
0
|
|
Number of abandoned games due to
snow
|
0
|
|
Number of days in which personal
involvement in a multi-vehicle motorway pile-up is followed by a late-night
puncture in a thunderstorm
|
1
|
Unfortunately,
no-one had the foresight to sponsor me for this. See the Larkhall Athletic
post.
|
Hopping for Moorfields FAQs
1 How
can I pay?
By PayPal: to the email address headyapp (at) hotmail
(dot) com
By cheque: email me on headyapp (at) hotmail (dot)
com or DM me on Twitter and I will send you my home address.
By online transfer: email or DM me and I will let you
have my bank account details
I will publish the written
acknowledgement from the charity in due course, hopefully around the end of
August, to prove that your donations have been passed on. If you prefer to send the money direct to
Moorfields then their details are here. Let
me know if you do this so that I can include you in the totals.
2 Can
I make the donation through Gift Aid?
Yes if you
meet the qualification rules as a UK taxpayer.
You would need to complete and send this form (link below) to me with
your payment and I will make sure that your instructions are followed. Email or Twitter DM me for contact details if
you wish to do this. This would be a
good thing to do as it increases the value of your donation – but remember to
keep a copy for your own tax records.
3 I
didn’t make a pledge at the time, so can you accept a donation now?
Of course,
make a payment of any random amount that you choose, by any of the methods in
FAQ(1) above. This would be magnificent. The original idea of this season is that
hundreds of people would give me small amounts each. No donation is too small or insignificant.
4 Will
donors’ names be made public?
I will not
be publishing individual names though of course many of the initial pledges
were made publicly on Twitter.
5 Which
games did you see?
Firstly, these
were the games at 47 “new” grounds which took my lifetime total up to 512. Each one has its own blogpost which can be
reached from the tag cloud on the right of the page.
Competition
|
Result
|
Eastern
Counties Premier
|
FC
Clacton 2 CRC 2
|
Midland
Alliance
|
Tividale
3 Westfields 4
|
Conference
North
|
Workington
4 Stalybridge Celtic 1
|
FA
Cup Preliminary Round
|
Wootton
Bassett T 1 Hamworthy U 0
|
FA
Cup Preliminary Round
|
Sleaford
T 1 Rainworth Miners Welfare 2
|
FA
Cup Preliminary Round
|
Highworth
T 1 Shortwood U 0
|
Sussex
County D1
|
Selsey
1 Lancing 5
|
Isthmian
D1S
|
Crawley
Down Gatwick 3 Dulwich Hamlet 1
|
Hellenic
D1E
|
Henley
T 1 Chalfont Wasps 5
|
Two
|
Rotherham
U 4 Bradford C 0
|
FA
Vase 1st Qual Rd
|
Cobham
3 Oakwood 2 aet
|
FA
Vase 1st Qual Rd replay
|
Cranfield
U 4 Bush Hill Rangers 1 aet
|
Conference
Premier
|
Newport
Co 0 Stockport Co 0
|
Hellenic
Premier
|
Marlow
4 Highmoor Ibis 1
|
FA
Cup 1st Qual Rd replay
|
Blaby
& Whetstone 1 Eastwood T 3
|
Conference
South
|
Truro
C 0 Bromley 1
|
FA
Cup 2nd Qual Rd
|
Trafford
5 Spennymoor T 3
|
FA
Trophy 1st Qual Rd
|
Grays
Ath 1 Ashford T (Mx) 1
|
Southern
D1 Central
|
Rugby
T 6 Guildford C 1
|
FA
Vase R1 Replay
|
Hanwell
T 0 Oxhey Jets 1
|
FA
Cup 4th Qual Rd
|
Hastings
U 3 Blackfield & Langley 0
|
Denmark
(2nd tier)
|
Hobro
1 AB 1
|
Denmark
(2nd tier)
|
Viborg
2 Fredericia 2
|
Denmark
Superliga
|
Esbjerg
1 SønderjyskE 2
|
Denmark
Superliga
|
FC
Midtjylland 1 Brøndby 1
|
Denmark
Superliga
|
Horsens
1 FC København 0
|
FA
Trophy 3rd Qual Rd
|
Bognor
Regis T 1 Havant & Waterlooville 4
|
FA
Vase R2
|
Amersham
T 1 Rye U 0
|
Hellenic
Premier
|
Highmoor
Ibis 0 Binfield 3
|
NPL
D1S
|
Brigg
T 0 Coalville T 3
|
FA
Vase Rd 3
|
Hadleigh
U 2 Oxhey Jets 0
|
Isthmian
D1S
|
Maidstone
U 2 Worthing 2
|
Eastern
Counties Premier
|
Wisbech
T 0 Godmanchester Rovers 0
|
Isthmian
D1N
|
AFC
Sudbury 0 Needham Market 0
|
Eastern
Counties Premier
|
Diss
Town 1 Gorleston 1
|
Northern
Premier
|
Witton
Albion 2 Nantwich T 2
|
B’
ham AFA Div 6
|
Castlecroft
Rangers 2 Dosthill Boys Club 2
|
NPL
D1S
|
Coalville
T 2 Sutton Coldfield T 0
|
FA
Vase Rd 4
|
Larkhall
Ath 2 Peacehaven & Telscombe 1
|
Northern
Premier
|
Buxton
0 FC United of M’cr 3
|
FA
Vase Rd 5
|
Spalding
U 1 Guernsey 3
|
Southern
Premier
|
Stourbridge
2 Hemel Hempstead Town 3
|
Southern
Premier
|
Frome
T 0 St Albans C 3
|
Isthmian
D1N
|
Thamesmead
T 3 Potters Bar T 2
|
West
Mids Regional Prem
|
AFC
Wulfrunians 4 Black C’try Rangers 3
|
Combined
Counties League D1 Cup Semi-Final
|
Eversley
& California 1 AFC Croydon Athletic 2
|
South
Midlands Premier
|
Holmer
Green 2 London Tigers 3
|
I also saw these games at Hitchin Town
FC:
5-0 v Whitehawk (FA Cup 2nd
Qual Rd replay), 1-2 v Hastings U (FA Cup 3rd Qual Rd replay), 0-3 v
Cambridge C, 0-1 v Leamington, 1-3 v Chesham U and 1-1 v Bedworth U (all
Southern Premier League).
Finally, I paid a second visit to
Stamford (4-1 v King’s Lynn) and two more to Wembley for the Two and One
playoff finals (Bradford C 3-0 Northampton T and Yeovil T 2-1 Brentford).
6 Why
did you do this?
Moorfields
Hospital has performed a number of eye operations on close family members for a
range of conditions involving cataracts and detached retinas. I and they are very grateful for these
life-changing outcomes and it goes without saying that we need to keep on doing
good science and developing clinical practice if we are going to help people all over the world recover or protect their sight. Here are
some examples from Moorfields’ own website which show how our donations make a
difference.
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