THERE was Albion history made on Saturday and unfortunately not the kind the club wants to shout about.
The 2,545 crowd was the lowest FA Cup home attendance in over half a century but should the club have expected anything else?
The visit of Hartlepool was the fourth successive home game at the Withdean and the second one at which season ticket h
olders became cash purchasers, which with the current financial situation was probably a deciding factor to the poor turnout.
With so many empty seats on Saturday I wonder what more the club can do, because they have tried so hard to attract support, especially with the new scheme which sees a squad member assigned to a local school. And prices were reduced for the cup match.
Clearly, the poor showing at the turnstiles was like a shot in the arm for the Falmer stadium opponents.
Unfortunately a fifth home game followed last night, (Wednesday), with the visit of Swindon in the Johnstone Paint Pot Trophy, and I would be very surprised if Saturday's crowd figure is surpassed.
Five home games on the bounce is almost as rare as hen's teeth, but in this day and age of every penny counting is something the Albion might have wanted to avoid.
But then again it goes from one extreme to another as the Albion's next two away fixtures are visits to Carlisle and Hartlepool for the cup replay three days later, and any supporter who makes both of those games in my book gets into the uber-fan category.
- No real football fan likes to see any team implode, so what is currently going on at Lewes FC certainly doesn't make pleasant viewing.
I have to declare an interest here as current Rooks manager Kevin Keehan is someone I would class as a friend, but with what's going on I'd imagine even he is now thinking he is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
If anything positive can come from this desperate situation it's that I hope that all at Worthing FC take on board the obvious mistakes Lewes have made and make sure they don't go down the same sorry path in a few years' time.
That's not to say I wouldn't want to see the Rebels in the Conference. I believe they are potentially a far bigger club than Lewes could ever be, and really, aside from Crawley and Eastbourne, the only other Sussex side that could realistically survive at one level below the Football League.
Given time and with the support of the local footballing public, the borough council and the local business community, I firmly believe that Worthing can achieve their potential.
- Never mind imploding, is football going to explode?
Ronaldo's agent flies into Manchester for contract talks, allegedly demanding £170,000 per week for his client.
So, in layman's terms, in 13 years the price of the Goldstone Ground in
1995 now wouldn't even cover the wages of the country's top player for 12 months.
Unsustainable is the word I'm looking for. . .
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