Eastbourne United did their level best to give their supporters a little bit of déjà vu as they marched into a three nil halftime laid for the second time in two weeks. Once again it was Charlie Ball who opened the scoring inside of 10 minutes, followed closely by James Hull repeating history from the previous week as well. On the stroke of halftime, it was brother Ollie who made it 3-0, meaning United went in with same score as last week against Loxwood. Once again though, despite the encouragement of another bumper crowd, the half time score remained the full time score. It wasn’t for lack of trying though- Ollie Hull, Ball and Ibrahim all made the keeper work, while James Hull headed just over from Grout's excellent corner. Broadbent at the other end was updating his social media for all I know, his quietest afternoon of the season. Just after the hour, a seemingly excellent tackle for Ollie Hyland left a Little Common player rolling in agony, and a yellow for Hyland. Happily no physio was needed and he sprinted off - infuriating United, who immediately turned up the volume on the goal attempts, Samways, Walsh Both Hulls and Ibrahim all going close, but to no avail, 3-0 it remained.

United go sixth, outside of the playoffs on goal difference only.

Good Friday evening sees them travel to AFC Whyteleaf to play Lingfield, whose pitch is unplayable. A win will take them fourth before the weekends other games, and then, who knows?
Shortly after full time came the sad news of the passing of Chris Cox, who many of us counted as a good friend - former committee member, long time supporter and one time coach driver for our away games, he will be sadly missed by all of us in the stands, Rest in Peace Chris.