TABLE TENNIS: Fraser’s Top Table
Claremont provides elite venue for local star by Ben Cornwell Upcoming talent Fraser Kent, 15, who lives in Heathfield but plays for Hollington Academy in the Hastings League, is among those benefitting from a recent move of Weald Table Tennis Club…
FOOTBALL: The World Cup – A Morality Play
Many years ago – before Britain even entered the EU, let alone determined to leave it – a well-travelled South African explained to me a fundamental difference in outlook between the English and other Europeans. ‘If you call a Frenchman…
CRICKET: Hooper Returns, Priory Revive
It has been the worst run of league results in memory for the cricketers of Hastings & St Leonards Priory. A win over Ifield in the opening Sussex Premier game and an abandonment of the next one with Middleton were…
Apathy in France
Luther Sullivan I am watching the World Cup on TV channel TF1 in a street in Paris. “No bet no game”, declares a prominent advert (in English) during half time. How true in France; after all what possible pleasure could…
Anguish in Peru
Felix Sullivan Peru last went to a world cup in 1982. They are also at an impressively high 11th in the FIFA rankings (above England). There has been a huge sense of pride, but also expectation. Every advert on TV…
Jubilation in Hastings (for now)
Popular expectations of World Cup success for the England team this time round have seemed at an all-time low. They are what a trade analyst might call a damaged brand after their first round exit four years ago following defeats…
On Our Bikes 1066
Cycling Festival gets kids involved. Dave Young reports For the third year running the 1066 Cycling Festival brought a host of bike-themed entertainments and exhibitors to the Stade, attracting a steady stream of visitors over both days of last weekend.…
Joe Oakley – Trials Team Champ
Bike trials world champion and Britain’s Got Talent runner-up Joe Oakley thrilled, and scared, the Festival crowd with heart-stopping exhibitions of cycle stunts, including jumping from bar to bar down a scaffolding ladder (then repeating the trick with the front…
FOOTBALL: Less games, less travelling, lesser opposition?
Last year the Ryman League became the Bostik League in a shift of commercial sponsorship that brought little change in playing arrangements – or fortunes – for Hastings United. Next season the seventh and eighth tiers of English football will…
TENNIS: Keen on pleasing god
Members of Hastings tennis club Amherst are lucky to have as their head coach Doug Keen, once a winner on the US Satellite Tour and at the age of 49 still an outstanding player and enthusiastic teacher. Luck? From Doug’s…