Latest Sport: Packing a punch
Jules Breach from Latest Sport on winning, losing, and keeping fighting fit
Hello sports fans! Last week you all found out loads of random facts about each of us on the team, so hopefully you feel like you know us a lot better. I now feel like I can write this article all about my love for The Backstreet Boys … but I won’t. As tempting as it is.
On to the sport. Were you at The Amex for Brighton vs Rotherham last week? Well, it was yet another draw for us, and being a home game that really wasn’t good enough. We also proved that our defensive players are better at scoring goals than our strikers, yet again! That can’t be right can it?
Joe Bennett scored our only goal of the match, and joins Greer and Dunk on the defenders’ scoring list for the season. It was gutting to concede that equaliser so soon after the second half kicked off … I was at the game and I’d only just enjoyed finishing off my steak pie so I actually missed the goal! Annoying, and very bad timing. Cheers fellas.
Anyway, onwards and upwards, because as I write this we only have a few hours to go until we travel up to Whitehart Lane for our cup tie with Spurs! I’ll be chatting more about that next week, as unfortunately, due to deadlines, this column will already have been sent to be published before the ref even thinks of blowing his whistle.
But last week on Latest Sport we had a great time with all of our guests. On Matchday Breakfast, Tim and Joseph were joined by John Rattle, chairman of Burgess Hill Football Club, ahead of their big game at Dartford in the FA Cup. The boys ended up losing 3-1 to the conference side, but we’ve got to give credit where it’s due; they gave it their best, but the fitness of the full timers edged our local Ryman side on the day. Nevertheless, Burgess Hill still remain undefeated in the league and are now focusing all their energy on promotion, so we wish Chappers and the boys all the best. We’ll be rooting for you!
Tim and Joseph were thankfully also joined by a couple of the Albion ladies on the sofa, as it was getting far too manly for my liking. The girls gave a really inspiring chat about being ladies in such a male dominated sport, and we even got to see a compilation of some of their goals and a bit of showboating, too. Go on the girls! As they said as well, it really only takes you to go down and watch them play to get the real bug for women’s football, and you’ll soon find yourself following them. After all, they’re scoring more goals than our first team at the moment!
On At The Amex last weekend, the guys were also joined by special guest Lloyd Ellett. He’s our Brighton born-and-bred light middleweight boxer, he’s undefeated, and he’s managed three knockouts in his career too. You don’t want to mess with this bloke!
Lloyd spoke to the boys about his upcoming fight at the Crusader Fright Night event at the Brighton Metropole on Friday 31 October. I’ll be hosting the event on the night so I’ll have the full details about all the fights and the boxers in next week’s issue. I managed to catch up with Lloyd at The Amex, as he was there watching the Rotherham game last weekend. There wasn’t much fighting talk; I was more interested in how these boxers keep up their crazy strict diets in the lead up to a big fight. I’ve always got food on my brain. And more importantly, we had a bit of school rivalry banter too. Lloyd went to Varndean and I was a Newman girl, so us Hove lot always have a bit of beef with any other school other than our own! I’m hoping I may have got him in the mood for his fight, but then again, I’m sure he has much better ammo to get him fired up than a bit of playground school bants from little old me …
Good luck to Lloyd and all the other local boys. We’ll have the full run down next week.
Til then sports fans! Jules X
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