Sport And The Virus
The National Health Service website currently shows, as you would expect, a constantly updated section on the coronavirus pandemic. On other pages it continues to talk up what it calls “a miracle cure” which can “reduce your risk of major…
Betvictor Isthmian League: The Run-in
A glance at the league table below shows that there are four teams still with realistic ambitions to challenge for the South-East Division title over the last six weeks of the season, and thus gain automatic promotion to the Isthmian…
FOOTBALL: TOP SPOT
Pope Penalty Double Puts ‘U’s Back In Front Hastings United 2, Whitstable Town 1 Ben Pope scored his 24th and 25th goals of the season, both from the penalty spot, as Hastings United came from behind to notch a vital…
FOOTBALL: Joe White Deceased
Hastings Football Dynast Last Saturday’s Pilot Field crowd of over seven hundred stood for a minute’s applause before kick-off in memory of recently deceased former player and manager Joe White. In his playing days for Hastings United in the early…
ARCHERY: The Oldest Sport?
Cave dwellers carved them in pictures, Stone Age tribes hunted with them, they were key weapons for ancient armies in battle. Whatever else they symbolise, bows and arrows embody a technology that’s been superseded. Not that they don’t still carry…
ARCHERY: I Join The Bowmen
Storms Ciara and Dennis have been shrieking overhead on recent Saturday afternoons at Horntye, lashing the South Saxons hockey players on the astro turf outside with horizontal rain. Not quite the best conditions for field sports, you would think. But…
BOWLS: Rub Of The Greens?
Council Budget Cuts Threaten Club Wipe-Out Proposed cuts in the Hastings Borough Council (HBC) 2020/21 budget will affect many areas of town life from shortening of museum opening hours to rescheduling of street cleaning services. Amongst savings of nearly £,…
FOOTBALL: Pilot Blight
Record Crowd Sees Comprehensive Home Defeat Hastings United 0, Ashford United 3 The biggest crowd for a league game at Pilot Field for many a season, numbered at 1,189, watched last Saturday’s match between the top two teams in the…
KICKBOXING
Dancing With Attitude Dancing is a natural human instinct. So is fighting. Turn up any weekday evening at the Fighters Loft on Harrow Lane – a pair of gym rooms which used to be the Ashdown House Social Club -…
MOTOR RALLYING
Battle Twins Win Honours At Brands Hatch A pair of 31-year-old twins, Anthony and Christopher Newton, who live near Battle and have been competing in the sport of motor rallying since 2006, achieved sensational results at a national event earlier…