West Sussex League

Division 3 North

Saturday 7th March 2026

Kick Off 14.00 Actual 13.58

Horsham Trinity 0 Horsham Crusaders Town 7, attendance 12

10’ 0-1

28’ 0-2

47’ 0-3

66’ 0-4

72’ 0-5

78’ 0-6

86’ 0-7

@ Lower Beeding Association Playing Fields

Leechpond Hill

Lower Beeding

RH13 6NR

No Admission or Programme.

This game stood out for me today, for more reasons than one. It was the penultimate first team venue I’d yet to visit in the West Sussex League and was the last home match of the season for Horsham Trinity and at this level, you never know where teams are going to play from week to week, let alone if they’ll still be based here come next season. Another factor was that the visitors were top of the league table, unbeaten in their first eleven games, with just an away draw at third in the table Holbrook Olympic Reserves being their only dropped points so far.

Horsham Trinity play at Lower Beeding Association Playing Fields, just to the south of the village and is shared with the local cricket club. The pavilion (doubling as the Village Hall) housed the changing rooms, as well as spectator toilets, with the pitch to the left of the cricket square, running lengthways away from the building. I’d had confirmation from the home club that it had passed a morning pitch inspection. Thankfully it remained dry, as it would have been touch and go otherwise, as it was very soft towards the far goal end.

Fifth in the table Trinity were no match for the league leaders in the end and despite falling behind after just ten minutes, were only trailing 0-2 at the break. The points were made safe two minutes into the second half, when a long ball over the top was finished first time into the bottom corner to make it 0-3. Trinity somehow stemmed the tide for the next twenty minutes, but conceded four more in the last quarter of the match, to give the visitors a resounding 0-7 win.