Supersubs at 50 and 63

When youngsters can't get out of bed for their village football matches on a Saturday there are veterans standing by only too pleased to fill the gaps they leave.

The Buxted III team is lucky to have two such players. Their 50-year-old manager Norman Smith from Olives Meadow, Uckfield, is always willing to play and 63-year-old Bob Spencer, from Hadlow Down, who usually runs the line each week, is also pleased to have a game.

And with them on board the team is just as likely to come away with a good win as they did recently playing away against top of the table Burgess Hill Albion IIs in division nine of the Robert Gray Mid-Sussex League.