East Sussex League

Division 3

Saturday 8th November 2025

Kick Off 14.00 Actual 13.58

Burwash 4 Sedlescombe Rangers 1, attendance 22

6’ 1-0

37’ 2-0

47’ 2-1

76’ 3-1

83’ 4-1

@ Burwash Playing Field

Swan Meadow

Ham Lane

Burwash

TN19 7ER

No Admission or Programme.

Another trip to East Sussex today, where 4th (out of 10) hosted 6th in the league table. I’d confirmed the game was going ahead okay with the home club just before eleven o’clock and a traffic free drive saw me arrive in Burwash, west of the A21, roughly midway between Royal Tunbridge Wells and Hastings, about an hour before kick off. The car park here is very small, so I parked in the High Street instead, no more than one hundred yards away.

The ground is shared with cricket, with the square behind the goal nearest the entrance and the pitch slopes down towards the far goal, which has a couple of tennis courts beyond. A large brick built changing room building is in the near left hand corner, with the pitch taped off from this corner to just beyond the halfway line, with both ‘benches’ setting up on this side.

Burwash kicked up the slope in the first half and were ahead after just six minutes when a pull back from the right was finished with a first time shot that went in off the far post, via the ‘keeper’s foot. Midway through the half they had a 20 yarder deflected onto the crossbar, quickly followed by an effort for Sedlescombe, that rebounded off the crossbar before the rebound was volleyed wide. Eight minutes before halftime Burwash doubled their lead, cutting in from the right before finishing left footed into the bottom corner from the edge of the box. Sedlescombe pulled it back to 2-1 two minutes into the second half, when a through ball that beat the offside trap was finished one on one. Burwash had a man sin binned with eighteen minutes left, but playing with a man short didn’t hinder them. They had a goal ruled out for offside a couple of minutes later, before going 3-1 up just seconds later, when a cross from the right was controlled at the far post and finished low into the bottom corner. Sedlescombe had a headed goal from a corner ruled out for a foul with nine minutes left, then conceded an own goal to make it 4-1 a couple of minutes later. Both teams hit the woodwork in stoppage time too, but there were no more goals.