Weekend of mixed results for Hollington’s Lions

Crowhurst 0  Hollington United 1st 7 Scott and Andy took the 1st team on a short trip to play bottom of the league Crowhurst in their Premier league encounter and as expected, things went true to form………eventually. With conditions not exactly ideal, and once again missing key players, the Lions were down to a bare […]

Hollington United – all five teams in weekend action

It was a sad weekend for the footballing community of Hastings with the death of Chris Tutt writes Dave Grass. Although we don’t think that he ever appeared in a Hollington Utd shirt, Chris was a very talented footballer – up there with the best that this town has produced. Our thoughts are with his […]

Town’s gory past is the inspiration behind football team’s nickname

South Coast Athletico might be Hastings’ newest senior football team but this year the club – only in its second full season – is chalking up some big wins. But how did South Coast Athletico come to be known as the Chopbacks? Well we’ve dipped deep into the murky history of the town to find […]

Chopbacks triumph in tight match

Sovereign Saints 3  South Coast Athletico 4 This weekend saw the Chopbacks travel to Eastbourne to face Sovereign Saints II in what would turn out to be a closely contested game. There was a minute’s silence before kick-off in memory of the father of one of the Sovereign Saints players who had died last weekend. […]

Burpees – Riley’s big idea

Six-year-old Riley Davis wanted to do something for people who “don’t have much things” and on Sunday he did just that. Proud parents Aaron and Lucy with Riley after he completed his challenge. Riley’s goal was to do 1,000 burpees, an exercise feared by even some of the hardest athletes, and in the process he […]