FOOTBALL: Agutter – A Forthright Interviewee
Hugh Sullivan asked questions of United manager Chris Agutter shortly before the match with Sittingbourne last Saturday. He is never afraid to give straight answers HS: You’ve explained in the past that your style of playing out from the back…
FOOTBALL: United In Cruise Mode
On a cold afternoon last Saturday Hastings United consolidated their second place in the Bostik League with a 5-0 home victory over Sittingbourne. All five goals came in the first half, including a hat-trick of headers by midfielder Jack Dixon. …
Sports Review 2018
The most celebrated sporting moment for Hastings in 2018 came arguably on New Year’s Day when former local electrician, Rob Cross, who had turned professional less than 12 months before, won the William Hill World Darts Championship at London’s Alexandra…
HORNTYE: Cricket, Hockey Clubs Stay Put
A year ago it all looked so promising. The directors of Hastings United FC and trustees of the Horntye estate were proceeding with a joint venture to sell off their respective existing sports grounds for housing development in exchange for…
United Rue Missed Chances
Hastings United lost 2-1 to Cray Wanderers in their top-of-the-table clash at Bromley on Sunday. Cray thus march on with 34 points from 12 matches in the Bostik League South-East, representing 11 wins and just one draw. Hastings remained in…
COMMUNITY SPORT: Sport For Life’s Sake
Martin Eglington, Active Communities Officer for Freedom Leisure, has always looked for opportunities to involve himself in sporting activity. Born and bred in Hastings, he aimed at becoming a professional footballer. At age 19, he turned out for Dover Athletic…
Freedom Leisure: The Sporting Brand
Not so long ago physical activity was the assumed fundamental of human experience. Homo sapiens may have come to dominate the world by applying co-operative brain power, but the vast majority of individual human beings – from hunter gatherers through…
FOOTBALL: Turn Off The Pilot Light
Hastings United want new stadium on the playing fields of Tilekiln The proposal to build a new sports complex for Hastings at Combe Haven, which was floated with such pride and optimism in many quarters two years ago, appears to…
Showdown At Bromley On Remembrance Day
Hastings United had won six out of seven Bostik League games this season and lay fourth in the table with several games in hand on teams above them prior to last Tuesday’s home match against Greenwich Borough. However, league leaders…
The Continuity Of Sport
A century of sports reporting in Hastings Sport is generally a conservative cultural form. The aims of running faster, jumping higher, showing greater strength - citius, altius, fortius, as the Olympic motto has it - haven’t changed essentially from…