TOWERING TOWNERS ARE JUST TOO HOT TO HANDLE

WHAT a fantastic advert this was for Step 3 football.

- Andrew Warshaw

Two in-form sides both going for it, thrills at both ends and one team ultimately being more clinical in front of goal.

On a day when there were no top-flight professional games due to the international programme, you couldn’t really have asked for a better spectacle at this level.

In the end, it was the hosts who ran out deserved winners to make it four wins out of five and cement their place in second spot.

By contrast, after three straight victories, Hastings boss Chris Agutter suffered his first defeat in his second spell at the club.

Such was the gloom of the afternoon that the floodlights were on after just five minutes but there was nothing gloomy about the action on the pitch.