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 -…
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…
FOOTBALL: Less games, less travelling, lesser opposition?
Last year the Ryman League became the Bostik League in a shift of commercial sponsorship that brought little change in playing arrangements – or fortunes – for Hastings United. Next season the seventh and eighth tiers of English football will…
Younger Than That Now
Calum Davis in action for Hastings United v Molesey; credit Scott White The early songs of Bob Dylan are hardly likely to feature on the playlist of Hastings United manager Chris Agutter. At 30 Chris is the youngest manager in…
FOOTBALL: Younger Than That Now
The early songs of Bob Dylan are hardly likely to feature on the playlist of Hastings United manager Chris Agutter. At 30 Chris is the youngest manager in the Bostik League, and the Nobel Laureate was putting the music of…
Uncertain Start For New ‘U’s Boss Agutter
Hastings United's uncertain start to the new football season lurched into apparent crisis last week with the exit of further key players, resignation of manager Adam Hinshelwood after a tenure of barely four months, and two more league defeats. Billy…
Plan B: Kids United?
It was on Match of the Day in August 1995 that Alan Hansen made his famous assessment - “You can't win anything with kids”. He was commenting on an early season defeat for Manchester United at Villa Park, when the…