SIX YEARS ago Dave Matthews was the country’s top scorer and taking short corners for England, so Mid Sussex were much relieved to earn a 1-1 draw against his visiting Canterbury team on Saturday.

DIVISION 2 leaders Copthorne suffered only their second defeat of the season as second-placed Ditchling beat them 3-1 on Saturday.

The Weald’s Peter Molloy emerged top male player at the Pavilion and Avenue junior open.

Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers are eyeing up Brighton’s Gustavo Poyet as a potential replacement for recently sacked Mick McCarthy.

Sussex County Cricket Club have announced that they will be returning to Dubai in March as part of their pre-season preparations.

IT IS status quo at the top of the Premier Division after the top two both claimed 3-2 away wins.

After the tropical temperatures at Weald even in this frosty weather, the second squash team came unstuck on icy courts at Brighton where they slipped to their first defeat of the season.

Wing wizard Craig Noone has said he will no celebrate if he finds the net in Sunday’s FA Cup clash with his boyhood idols.

A travelling army of 6,000 Brighton fans will leave for Liverpool on Sunday hoping to roar the Seagulls on to a famous victory.

A pair of Premier League loan signings are expected to wing their way down to Sussex today.

FREE membership to junior golfers will be offered at Lindfield GC under a new scheme to be introduced shortly.

AFTER surpassing last season’s historic achievement of reaching the last 16 of the English Schools FA National Cup, the under 13 girls team at Warden Park right) are now hoping to make the quarter finals when they play the Simon Balle School from Lea Valley tomorrow week (Friday February 24).

Talented Ardingly College student Gani Nuredini was made captain of the Independent Schools Football Association under 18s for their first international match of the season against Australia schools.

SUSSEX County Cricket Club has revealed a loss of £124,000 for the year to October 2011.

IT IS an honour to get one member of a family in a national sports team but the Johnsons of Haywards Heath have got all four children into the England ITF taekwondo team.

THIS was the only County League fixture to beat the big freeze on Saturday but one Brighton Charity Cup also survived.

Police arrested seven Millwall fans during Brighton’s 2v2 draw last night – with a number coming as a direct result of homophobic comments.

HASTINGS striker Kenny Pogue is lined up to make his debut for Burgess Hill when they visit mid-table Ramsgate on Saturday.

FOR the second weekend running it was virtually a white-out of the local outdoor sporting programme.

D DAY for Hassocks in their bid to claim a first senior trophy in their 110-year history is at the County Ground, Lancing, on Tuesday February 28 when they face Selsey in the RUR Cup semi finals.