Bexhill the form team in Sussex League

The Sussex Division Three's foremost club have now accumulated 32 points out of a possible 36 and their current form is better than anyone else in the entire league.

With 40 goals from 15 games they are the division's top scorers and they also possess two of the division's top four individual scorers, including the most prolific marksman in Dave Carey. During the six consecutive wins they've accrued, they've only conceded one goal - another unmatched sequence among rival clubs.

And the sixth was probably the best of that run too because Uckfield, one of the more fancied clubs during pre-season, had only been beaten twice since the first week of September prior to Saturday's crunch contest.

"It was a big win," said manager Bill Trivett. "I don't think many teams are going to get a win there and that's up there with the best results of the season.

"It was a big improvement on the week before (when they laboured past Newhaven 1-0 in their first match for four weeks) and the sharpness has come back. Each half we've played has been an improvement and, by the end of the game, we looked as if we were very close to being back where we were before Christmas."

And that doesn't bode well for the rest of the league. Neither does the form of Wes Tate. The former Sidley United frontman was on target for the seventh match in succession to kill the game off 10 minutes from time just a matter of seconds after goalkeeper and McPherson & Partners man of the match Mark Carey had pulled off a crucial save at the other end.

Mark Funnell had handed United a 55th minute lead with his sixth goal of the season - all of which have been headers - following a free kick from Lee Fletcher, whose disciplined man marking job in central midfield enabled Bexhill to gain the upper hand after half time.

Trivett added: "It was a close game, but, in the second half, I think we deserved to win it. Getting control of the midfield was the key to winning the game."