This Stadium Has Been ROTTING In The Heart Of Cornwall For 25 Years!!

[@johnwelander]

Very interesting history lesson about my village. Thanks for taking the time to find all this out.

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@johnwelander thank you 🙏 really appreciate that

[@davidthomas2617]

Really enjoyed this mate. Interesting stuff, however sad to see a football club left to rot and disappear into the history books. Hopefully, this video will get you some more information from the people involved in this old cornish football club. Good luck, mate.

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@davidthomas2617 thank you 🙏

[@DavidBray-r6h]

Riviera Coasters played their Duchy League matches there between 1994 and 1980. Great times were had on a lovely playing surface.

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@DavidBray-r6h still looks playable surface now tbf haha

[@phildurrant2422]

Remember Bugle FC well. By the time my side Saltash United returned to old SWL, they'd done down to ECPL and played our reserves but the SWL chair Tristan Scott (lovely fella) was Bugles Secretary back in 1950/1960s and they were well regarded in local football terms. It's a shame, a real shame.

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@phildurrant2422 doesn’t look like they’ll ever be back either:( my friend is saltash 3rds manager

[@phildurrant2422]

@@TheDevonMackem Chris? Good chap is Chris!

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@phildurrant2422 yeah legend. He’s been in some of my vlogs at Man Utd vs Barcelona and Man Utd vs Man City haha

[@lukehodge1819]

Some of my best memories were at this ground. I played for a youth team called Mount who played in the Plymouth DJM league and we used Mollinis Park as our home ground - 1993 / 1994 / 1995 ish. The changing rooms were located inside that main stand. Thanks for uploading this video - brings back so many great memories but also sad to see it left derelict. 😢

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@lukehodge1819 no problem at all! Like I said in the vid it would make me sad also if I had memories back in the day of playing or watching there :( sad state and sad that they don’t exist anymore! Thanks for sharing the info 🙏

[@rickywinterborn1004]

Glad you posted this. I played here once at U16’s level around 2006. Always remember the ground but until now wouldn’t have known where it was. Recognised it immediately from this video.

[@TheDevonMackem]

Thank you! Im glad I’ve brought back some memories!

[@liampatterson4744]

I played against Charlestown here also at under 16s in 2006. I always remember it as we were the first team to beat them for a while. Even scored the winner. Great memories.

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@liampatterson4744 ah amazing 🔥

[@MrMonkey-o5j]

It's a sign of society. I gave up playing football as I could not risk injury and not be able to work and life seems so much faster these days.

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@MrMonkey-o5j Who did you use to play for

[@MrMonkey-o5j]

@TheDevonMackem Do you know what, I never truly transitioned from kids DJM football to men's football. The team I played for at under 17s took on many of the Argyle youth players that never made the cut, and I had an inferiority complex when I should have competed with them. Around those times, I discovered nightclubs, women, and beer and did not play men's football until I was 25. I should have played South Western league if I had applied myself. I'm in my early 40s now, I just played for crap pub teams in P&D and Sunday morning football. I do look back and regret not playing a higher standard.

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@MrMonkey-o5j yeah I didn’t bother when I was a Teenager. Rathered playing PlayStation etc. do regret it too

[@ashleykoppelow96]

I grew up in New Molinnis and remember my dad buying me my first pair of football boots. I couldn’t wait to go over to the pitch and try them out as the goals used to be up and it was the only place we could play football properly in the village. My dad used to play for bugle in the early 90s so it must have been very nostalgic for him to take his son to kick a ball around at his old stomping grounds. Unfortunately, a grumpy old chap used to come and kick us off the pitch as it was ‘unsafe’ for us to be there. The clubhouse was exactly where you pointed out, the shell of what was the clubhouse was there for most of my childhood. The facilities that could have been for a small village club could have been great. Someone I know put in an application to the FA to try to restart the club but was unfortunately rejected. The grounds are still maintained as they hold the annual band competition at this location. They March down through the village and finish at where the football club was. I would love to see the club started back up and can’t see that it would take that much to do so. Having played duchy football for a number of years it would be one of the better pitches locally and could use the local pub or social club after the games to bring in some revenue. If anyone has any photos or information on my old man and what he was like as a player it would be great to hear. I won’t share his name but I’m sure anyone would recognise our very Cornish surname 😅

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@ashleykoppelow96 that’s a really nice story. Thank you for sharing that 🙏🙏

[@sknn497]

Very sad, didn't realise Bugle had folded. My uncle played for them in the 1960's, never played football there but played cricket at Bugle many times-the cricket team is still going which makes it very surprising that no football is played there now. Nigel Martyn played for Bugle among other Cornish clubs, Argyle missed out there.

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@sknn497 ah I wish I knew that fact before the video haha! Great bit of info! 🔥

[@ggnat]

Sad to see as a great club to play for, from committee to fans and players have many fantastic memories.

[@TheDevonMackem]

We need to bring back Bugle Fc!

[@AvrilLancaster]

Have you done this video again? I can't see my comment on there as put some useful info on there. Has it been deleted? Clyst Rovers in the table. Remember seeing them in the Great Mills Western League. Ground was near Exeter Airport. Luckily we got photos.

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@AvrilLancaster no and I haven’t deleted any comments. I remember you commenting on the Facebook post though? 💪

[@AvrilLancaster]

@@TheDevonMackem Ah right.

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@AvrilLancaster but you have sparked my interest on clyst rovers. Is that ground still there?

[@AvrilLancaster]

@TheDevonMackem It was in the grounds of Exeter Airport and they were regulars in the Great Mills Western League. I would imagine the site would be there. Remember seeing a game there and my brother and I have photos of it. Clandown AFC is another which is now an overgrown field but a club that has an amazing history. That's near Radstock.

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@AvrilLancaster ah nice

[@neilmottershead7521]

Saw Alan Watts (back row 3rd from right) in the League winning team photo the other day. If I remember rightly I heard their troubles started when the club steward was helping himself to money.

[@TheDevonMackem]

@@neilmottershead7521 Ah no not good! Seemed like a factor of lots of things :(