There’s a hierarchy of Eastbourne football clubs. It goes something like this:
- Eastbourne United Association FC.
- The other Eastbourne club in the town centre and which is handy for the pub and the second-hand bookshop.
- The other other Eastbourne club, which isn’t even in Eastbourne.
Eastbourne United have, in addition to the merits of being easy to park at and being very friendly generally, have been playing host to Bexhill’s own “other team”, who represent an unimportant and easily-disregarded wilderness of old people’s homes, a roundabout, and a rather good cheese shop. These exiles have been scuffing up Eastbourne’s pitch for several seasons, hopefully in exchange for a monetary consideration, but will soon be returning home to said wilderness, having built a stand for people to be in. I haven’t been up to have a look so I don’t know whether said stand faces towards or away from the pitch.
We look forward to our visit.
