So why buy the Herald this week?

It's the climax of the winter season, especially on our three main spectator sport fronts. You need to know, don't you? And you never know who you're going to read about. It might well be someone you know. Or thought you know.

Worthing Football Club have a relegation fight and we're looking at what they've got to do: that's win their last five matches. We think they can do that. Get the Herald and read why.

Strange, but our football's in a state. Not only Worthing could go down. So could Worthing United, Lancing and Storrington, in other words our entire squad of four senior clubs. The Herald tells you where they're at right now, and what's in front of them in the Easter programme. They're all playing twice. We had Sam Satchell watching United get a draw and almost a win at rivals Shoreham on Tuesday.

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Worthing Rugby Club can still go up. It's a tall order but it could happen. Sport's that unpredictable. Get the Herald to find out how they've got to the brink of the last match if the season and it's still alive.

Worthing Thunder basketball. They're already English League champions so the town has at least one winner this season. Now it's the Play-off Championship involving the top eight and Thunder are the favourites to lift a second trophy. It's no foregone conclusion. They're already over the first hurdle, which was the sudden death quarter-finals. They beat Solent. The Herald tells you how, through Richard Amey, and has two great action match pictures by Ian Muir.

Is that all?

Of course it isn't!

Worthing Football Club have caused a sensation by knocking out Lewes and reaching the Sussex Senior Cup Final the same season in which they could go down. We've John Clarke's live match report and some extra quotes from boss Danny Bloor.

Hockey: our women of Worthing were in the Sussex Cup semi-finals and met Horsham on Saturday. Richard Amey was there. We've his report and a picture of sweeper Kim Northam. In action. Find out where Penguin men finished after their last league game. They've had a good season.

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We've got some pictures and a report from the Worthing Harrier 20-Mile Road Race which was also the Sussex Championship.

Every week we've got Harty. If you've got his weekly column in your hand, you can show it to your friends and ask them what they think of what Harty's saying this week.

Worthing Golf Club have begun defending the Davies & Tate Sussex team Matchplay Championship title. Read how they got on and who they get next. Augusta, Georgia, and the US masters is on this weekend. Get in the mood with news of our own golfers. They're the best in the county.

There's a table tennis round-up of the Worthing League Closed champions and a picture of the Junior League boys and girls.

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Our parks football round-up homes in on Tabernacle FC. They's now in a cup final and hoping for their first silverware. The Worthing League title could be theirs too.

We've also got some news from the Sussex County Ground about Horsham Festival cricket and the County Championship, tennis at Storrington, Worthing Excelsior Cycling Club's latest event and football memorabilia fair.

The Herald's out every Thursday.