Sport In The (Home) Cinema – Ten Films To Watch
My top ten sporting films listed below range across nearly 40 years of cinema and a wide cross-section of sports. They are a personal selection that won’t please every taste. But I believe that each of them reveals something essential…
FOOTBALL: No Fruits Of The Season?
Hastings United will challenge FA decision to expunge results The Premier League and English Football League have yet to decide how to resolve their unfinished schedules. Supporters of Liverpool (waiting to celebrate their first league title in 30 years) and…
TEAM SPORTS: Winter Winners and Losers
Professional and semi-professional football is still wrestling with the problems engendered by sudden curtailment of the winter sporting season – see adjacent columns. Other local team sports, played over the winter months on a strictly amateur basis without livelihoods and…
CRICKET: Summer On Hold
The English Cricket Board has currently suspended all forms of recreational cricket, including indoor or pre-season training, in line with the universal sporting lockdown. The Sussex Cricket League has issued a three-part plan, preparing for any eventual relaxation in government…
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…
GOLF: Maximising Your Distance
When, leafing through your golfing manual, you reach the chapter on driving off the tee, you may well find tips on “maximising your distance”. The phrase recognises the desire of most golfers to hit their ball further up the fairway.…
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…