FOOTBALL: Exodus From Pilot Field
Hastings United have announced a full overhaul of their playing squad for the 2019/20 season. Ten of last year’s troops have departed, including many who arrived during manager Chris Agutter’s ongoing 20-month reign with fanfares of greeting but, for one…
FOOTBALL: Managing Disappointment
Who would be a football manager? Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino experienced the highest of highs last week as each guided their respective teams, Liverpool and Spurs, back from the dead in Champions League semi-finals to win famous victories. Literally…
FOOTBALL: Not Going Up
Hastings United drew a crowd of 1,123 - the biggest at Pilot Field for over six years – for their Bostik League play-off semifinal on Monday night. But for the home supporters it was as miserable an experience as if…
FOOTBALL: Brilliant Ajakaiye Boosts United
After four games without a win that had resulted in Hastings United slipping to third place in the Bostik League South-East, last Saturday’s 2-1 home win over Faversham Town came as welcome relief. It was a far from vintage performance…
FOOTBALL: Two Red Cards, Two Home Points Dropped
Hastings United had to settle for a 1–1 draw at home to Guernsey last Saturday after conceding a first half penalty, then two dismissals – leaving them to play nearly 30 minutes with nine men against eleven. It was scant…
FOOTBALL: Agutter – A Forthright Interviewee
Hugh Sullivan asked questions of United manager Chris Agutter shortly before the match with Sittingbourne last Saturday. He is never afraid to give straight answers HS: You’ve explained in the past that your style of playing out from the back…
United Rue Missed Chances
Hastings United lost 2-1 to Cray Wanderers in their top-of-the-table clash at Bromley on Sunday. Cray thus march on with 34 points from 12 matches in the Bostik League South-East, representing 11 wins and just one draw. Hastings remained in…
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…