FOOTBALL: Confident Agutter Plays It Southgate Style
On 24 October last year Hastings United slipped to 15th in the Bostik League South after conceding two late goals in a 2-1 home defeat by Thamesmead Town. Manager Chris Agutter, elevated from assistant less than a month before following…
CRICKET: Priory Down and (almost) out
Hastings & St Leonards Priory suffered two more Sussex Premier League defeats over the past two Saturdays, their tenth and eleventh of the season. Now more than 50 points adrift of Cuckfield, the next team above them, they must resign…
FOOTBALL: Knee Surgery for Rodari
‘U’s Italian striker will be sidelined for months Hastings United FC have released news that teenage striker Davide Rodari, the boy from Novara in Italy who made such an impact last season at Pilot Field as regular front player and…
CRICKET: Troubled Priory in line for drop
The three year tenure of Hastings & St Leonards Priory cricketers in the Sussex Premier League seems to be slipping away without reprieve or consolation. On the last two Saturdays, 14 and 21 July, the team suffered its eighth and…
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…