#COYD - Come on You Dockers

Newhaven Under 18s 2 Alfold Under 18s 2, Newhaven win 5-4 on penalties, Under 18s League Cup After the Newhaven Ladies success in the Eastbourne FA Cup last month, and the men’s success in the Peter Bentley Cup on Monday afternoon , it was up to the Under 18s to try and make it a hat-trick of cup successes for the club in less than a month. As it had been just 24-hours earlier, Hassocks’ Beacon Ground was the venue for Newhaven’s latest assault on a cup competition. However, while the men and ladies’ teams arguably went into their respective finals as slight favourites, this wasn’t the case for the Under 18s. In Alfold, they were undoubtedly up against one of the best teams in their age groups in the county (we’ll conveniently ignore the fact that Alfold is actually in Surrey). Champions elect of the SCFL Under 18s North Division, having amassed a hugely impressive 66 goals in just 15 games, Alfold will have been confident of making it a league and cup double. However, Clive

Newhaven Ladies 3 Eastbourne United Women 2, London & South East Women’s Football League Division 1 South, Match #22 On Sunday, Newhaven Ladies hosted Eastbourne United Women in the final game in what has been an overall encouraging league season for the female Dockers. Particularly the latter stages of it. Since the turn of the year, Newhaven had lost just three of the nine league games that they'd played going into their final match, winning four of them. With a commendable seventh-place finish already guaranteed, the Dockers look to have firmly established themselves at this level in just their second full season at it. And with a Sussex derby to finish the season, against a side with aspirations of a top four finish – United still have games to play – the Dockers were determined to end the season on a high. On a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon, in front of a healthy crowd of just over 60, Newhaven started the game in the ascendancy, and it was no real surprise when

Newhaven 2 Crowborough Athletic 1, Peter Bentley Cup Final The league season may not have panned out quite the way we wanted it to, but the Peter Bentley Cup offered the Dockers a chance to add some much-deserved silverware to the Fort Road trophy cabinet. Newhaven are no strangers to Peter Bentley Cup finals. Since the competition’s formation in 2014/15, this would be the fourth final they’ve appeared in, and the second in succession. However, of the previous three, they’d won just one – the inaugural final. The time was rife to rediscover that winning feeling. Standing in their way of making this happen were Crowborough Athletic. Having been members of SCEFL league in recent seasons, this was their first season in the league cup competition and, like Newhaven, they were desperate to end a decent season (they finished a commendable sixth) on a high. Following two close league games which ended in a draw at Crowborough and a narrow Newhaven victory at Fort Road , this was al