Be it Lenny Kravitz singing it, or American baseball icon Yogi Berra or the legendary John Belushi on the silver screen saying it, it clearly “ain’t over ’til it’s over’ – and over the bank holiday weekend, no-one was more aware of that than Worthing FC or potential future world heavyweight champion Moses Itauma.

Being at the top level of non-league was never going to be plain sailing and in the last two fixtures, Tamworth away on Friday night and Boreham Wood at home on Bank Holiday Monday, Worthing have led only to end up empty-handed.

At Tamworth they led on 90 minutes, but still lost – on Monday the turnaround came earlier in the second half.

A constant theme which will run right through this debut NL season is that every day is a school day, and clearly Worthing will learn from this, but Adam Hinshelwood is still a great manager and in Jon Meeney the club has technically one of the most talented coaches in the league.

Worthing look for a way past Boreham Wood - but it ended in defeat | Picture by Jay Wrighte

placeholder image — Worthing look for a way past Boreham Wood - but it ended in defeat | Picture by Jay Wrighte

Coming into September, a couple more results under their belt to go with the excellent wins against Carlisle and Wealdstone, and the league table will have an air of respectability and renewed optimism come the end of the month.

What doesn’t help perhaps is the departure of one of the club’s best players,Teddy Jenks, who’s off to big-spending Carlisle United. The rumoured £100,000-plus fee coming the other way is a crumb of comfort, but ultimately the Rebels will miss him.

On Monday it was perhaps the worst-kept secret at Woodside Road. As soon as I got in the 1886 Lounge I was told about it, walking to my seat in the stand another two people asked me if it was true, then when I finally sat down, my neighbour in the stand, a veritable Worthing FC oracle, said someone’s mum had told him it was happening!

Micky Adams, the manager who signed a young Adam Hinshelwood over 25 years ago, had a well-used but effective phrase: “Keep the Faith”. And even without Jenks, I still think Worthing will have a credible first season in the NL.

Those wins will come and I’m very much enjoying the matchday experience and seeing a team I’ve supported for over half a century mixing with best non-league teams in the country.

As for Itauma, like the Rebels he clearly had victory in sight in his IBF World Heavyweight title fight against Croatia’s Filip Hrgovic on Saturday night, before his vastly more experienced opponent came to the fore in the championship rounds with the young prospect’s corner eventually throwing in the towel.

Given the pre-fight hype, and the look on promoter Frank Warren’s face, it didn’t go to plan, but maybe in the rush to make the very likeable Itauma one of the youngest British world champions ever, they threw him in too early. He’d only fought 31 rounds against opponents far from the top level, so to then put him him with a former Olympic medalist, with an impressive record and a granite chin, felt like a bridge too far.

At 21 he will come again, and I believe along with the likes of Daniel Dubois and Fabio Wardley will produce another golden era for heavyweight boxing, filling stadiums in the UK and abroad.

That could be the opposite to the current farce that’s playing out between Tyson Fury and Antony Joshua.

Will they, won’t they? I don’t think they will, and if they do, it’s somewhat ironic that they are due to meet in the very same ring In Madison Square Garden where Hulk Hogan partnered Mr T in the Tag Team contest in the first Wrestlemania, which was about as credible as this proposed contest.

I believe Fury, who’s already in a training camp, will fight, taking on WBC champion Agit Kabayel (they share both the same management and promotional company) with the opportunity to become a three time world champion, emulating Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis. Then, hopefully, win or lose, the Gypsy King will realise it’s time to leave it to the next generation.