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…
FOOTBALL: Another Saturday, Another Cup Round
Heroics at Leiston, now it’s another 220-mile round trip to Hitchin It’s not often that a team has three players sent off in a match, yet receives universal plaudits across the country for its performance. That was the case in…
FOOTBALL: Pilot Field To Premier League?
A high percentage of Premier League players started their careers within a top level academy like Manchester United or Chelsea. More were bought in with a multi-million pound price tag from Italy, Brazil or beyond. But the cheaper way for…
RUGBY: H&B Leave It Late (Again)
In their opening game of the season on 8 September Hastings & Bexhill achieved an astonishing 26-26 draw with Park House by scoring two tries, the second of them converted, in the last two minutes of the contest. A home…
FOOTBALL: Up For The Cup
All football clubs, great and small, are bound to regard league matches as their bread-and-butter. Whether you’re English Premier League or Bostik League South East, it is the league schedule which determines your status in the national pyramid; and where…