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…
BMX: The Battle of Hastings – on Wheels
By Rod Webb Walking along the promenade past Source Park a couple of weekends ago, you’d have probably been unaware of a major international competition taking place right under your feet. Glancing at the BMX bikes lining the railings you…
FOOTBALL: United Go Top
Hastings United continued their winning ways last Saturday with a comfortable 3-0 victory at Pilot Field over Phoenix Sports that puts them top of the Bostik League South East table. It’s early days, but the fifth successive victory -…
GOLF “A Club Close To My Heart”
Former Pro Returns to Manage Beauport It didn’t take too long after all. We reported in these columns two weeks ago that the disastrous tenure of Chris and Kellie Hawes at the Beauport Park golf club (briefly re-branded as Hastings…
GOLF: The Giddins Experience
Charles Giddins, former golf pro and director of the company which held the lease of the clubhouse and course at Beauport Park from 2005 until July last year gives HIP his thoughts on how Roger Hyder can get the club…
GOLF CLOSURE: Par for the Course
A public footpath between Whatlington and Netherfield runs between fairways of what used, until three or four years ago, to be Battle Golf Club. These days occasional walkers make their way past rough clumps of shoulder-high grass on either side.…