Mid Sussex League

Championship Division (Top Section)

Saturday 10th April 2021

Kick Off 14.00 Actual 14.02

Ridgewood 0 Reigate Priory 0, attendance 12

@ Convent Field

off Mountfield Road

Lewes

BN7 2XA

No Admission or Programme.

Following the restart of football after the COVID-19 lockdown, the Mid Sussex League decided to complete the season for the top two divisions by splitting the league table into a top and bottom half, with each team then playing each other once, then using a points per game average for the games played so far, which will be added together to determine promotion/relegation places.

With these two being in the top half, they can’t be relegated, but there would still be a promotion place up for grabs along with champions elect Southwick 1882, the league leaders having beaten both these teams 5-0 since the division split. Although Ridgewood are bottom, Reigate Priory certainly weren’t out of it, although the draw today certainly won’t help them.

The game never really got going, but Reigate Priory should have won it. Their No.9 trod on the ball when staring at an open goal from two yards out, when it looked impossible to miss, and they had the ball in the net twice in the final five minutes, but both were disallowed for offside by the home club linesman.

Convent Field is next to Lewes Priory and is accessed via a path from the car park behind the goal end entrance of The Dripping Pan, home of Lewes F.C.