The fastpaced world of walking football

The Burwash Old Boys had to play three matches in ten days last month. It was a struggle to recover from one game before the next one came along! It didn’t turn out to be a great month…

We met our match against Old Bexhillians going down 4-1 to the unbeaten league leaders. On the positive side we scored a goal against a team not used to conceding. We were (genuinely) unfortunate to go 2-1 down before half time when they had a lucky break. 3-1 from a penalty but we managed to restrict them to just one further goal.

We also travelled to Battle for our second game of the month. Selection problems meant that we had to start with a novice goalkeeper and an injured defender. We conceded early on against a defensive Battle side and it became clear we would find it difficult to score. Changes were made at half time but a mistake and a goal gave us little chance of coming back from 2-0 down. www.burwashwalkingfootballers.co.uk

To cap off the month we played secondin-the-league Hastings United at home. 1-0 down at half time. Hastings found our defence quite resilient.

But it doesn’t end there…The group tried a new sport mid-month – Pickleball. It’s played indoors on a court similar to badminton but with a tennis net and with bats like table tennis! We were guests of the Etchingham Pickleball Club and it is a new and fast-growing activity that can be played by all ages. We all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and several of us have been back to play again.

Contact Steve ‘Minty’ Mintram on 01435 882444 for more information.