Eve of tournament training tonight at Les Academias. Hornets’ manager Massive Mark laid on an excellent skills workshop: trapping, passing, ball-facing and pinging, and Chairman Phil did the fitness work-out – nothing too strenuous before our club’s biggest test against 15 other teams at Pilot Field. So when it came […]
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Eight competitive 10-minute games between three teams of seven and only four goals scored. That is unheard of at Hastings United – the home of walking football. But four goals at the Academias Decrepido was all we got. The cause? Toothless striking? Brilliant goalkeeping from three front-line goalies and an […]
The Hornets were exterminated tonight by Burwash in a mid-table championship clash. Playing away in a Robertsbridge sports hall, the Hastings lads had 70 per cent of the possession but succumbed to a 3-1 defeat to a team we really should have bested. It all started well with a goal […]
Chairs was late on parade tonight for our first floodlit session at Les Academias. When he arrived he found 20 lads already warming up under the watchful eye of Hornets’ coach Massive Mark. The chairman was nonplussed. He said: ‘ Wow! This is very organised!’ And that’s the way Hastings […]
There are two positions on a football field that attract most attention. While the midfield playmakers are spraying the ball about with gay abandon week in and week out, their brilliant work is only as good as the centre forward and he’s only as good as the keeper lets him […]
After a couple of weeks of frantic match-play for Hastings United WF we returned to relative normality today with a sun-filled training session at Les Academias. Both the first and second teams recorded recent wins against local rivals and the 060s had a hard-fought defeat away in the cup. But […]
Seventy miles is a long way to go to get beaten in the WFA cup but beaten we were tonight. It was a narrow 3-2 victory under the floodlights by Herne Bay but it was the rules that sunk Hastings and not the opposition. The Bay team play off the […]
The Bexhill Old Stars made a great start to their home game with the Hornets. After 10 minutes it was one all and neither team was showing much dominance. But ten minutes is a long time in walking football and by half time the Hornets had begun to turn the […]
Following this morning’s league match, a reduced number turned out for training at Les Academias Decrepidos. But – nevertheless, it was an enthralling seven-a-side hour’s run-out, with some great goals and good-spirited competitiveness. Matty Longshanks made up for not getting on the scoresheet in Bexhill with a beaut. of an […]
Big games often turn on small moments. And that’s what happened at Les Academias Decrepido this afternoon. The crunch Sussex Premiership clash between Hastings United and Bexhill was settled within two minutes. A tricksy shot from Massive Mark spun awkwardly towards Big H in the Bexhill goal and crept […]