Pre-Season Friendly

Tuesday 9th July 2019

Kick Off 19.45 Actual 19.30

Littlehampton Town 4 Littlehampton United 1, attendance 20

24’ 1-0

27’ 2-0

40’ 3-0

66’ 3-1

81’ 4-1

@ The Arena Sports Centre, 3G Pitch

Westloats Lane

Bognor Regis

PO21 5JD

No Admission or Programme.

These two both play in the Southern Combination League, Town in Division 1 and United in Division 2. They both play home games at The Sportsfield, in St. Flora’s Road, which is the ground of Town.

Despite the game being advertised as a 19.45 kick off, it actually kicked off 15 minutes earlier, which I thought might have been to avoid having to use the floodlights, but they were turned on seven minutes into the second half, so that wasn’t the case. I suppose it was a case of ‘we are all here, so let’s get started’. It caught a lot of the ‘crowd’ out though, as there were only two of us present as we got underway.

Town looked the better team, which should be expected as they are one division higher than United, but it was a decent game, helped by each team only having a 16 man squad, rather than a different team for each half. United scored the best goal of the match, with a well worked ‘one-two’ back heeled pass on the edge of the 18 yard box, that was finished off with a shot into the far corner of the net.