2021 The year in sport
By Hugh Sullivan, Ben Cornwell and Peter Knight The year began in lockdown and ends with renewed concern over social contact indoors and mass spectator gatherings. Covid-19 continues to cast its shadow. Nevertheless almost all forms of local sporting activity…
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Agutter Quits – a retrospective The comings and goings of football managers are everyday news on national sports pages. But the sudden, apparently unilateral, departure of Hastings United manager and academy head Chris Agutter from Pilot Field after more than…
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The 1,000 Mile Cup Trail Hastings United players and travelling fans go to Maidenhead tomorrow (Saturday) on their renewed quest for FA Cup glory. It’s the fifth successive tie in which they’ve been drawn away this season – one preliminary round,…
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A Sunny Sort of Start Hastings United 1Herne Bay 1 By Nick Pelling The sun was shining over Pilot Field last Saturday as the blue sky and cold lagers welcomed in the new football season. There is a great deal…
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Billy Wood still a Soul Man By Nick Pelling At a recent AGM of the Hastings United Independent Supporters Club, the CEO of Hastings United, Billy Wood, held a fascinating question-and-answer session. Perhaps inevitably, the key questions were about the…
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Going So Well It was all going so well for the players, management and supporters of Hastings United. Five successive league wins sending them to the top of the Isthmian League table; advancement in the FA Trophy and Sussex Senior…
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Strikers Hit Form Hastings United 3,FC Romania 0 Hastings United scored only one goal and conceded none in their first four games of the season – three 0-0 draws after a solitary strike by midfielder Jack Dixon defeated Herne Bay…
FOOTBALL: Spectators back at Pilot Field
Football returned to Pilot Field as a spectator sport last Saturday when Hastings United hosted Folkestone Invicta in a pre-season friendly. Under Football Association guidelines which apply until 31st August, numbers attending were limited to not more than 15% of …
FOOTBALL: United Prepare But For What?
The majority of last year’s Hastings United squad have re-signed for the 2020/21 season together with some heralded new recruits, and embarked on a series of pre-season friendly games from the beginning of this ; Off the field, both energetic…
FOOTBALL: Away Day In Weymouth?
The reward for the winner of Tuesday night’s FA Trophy replay between Hastings United and Whitehawk is an away tie at Weymouth in the third qualifying round of the competition, to be played on Saturday 23rd ; If that is…