EP ARE SO CLOSE

YOU WOULD have to be made stone not to feel the emotional atmosphere flying around the East Preston area at the moment.

By The Newsroom

Published 25th Apr 2002, 16:00 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 01:07 BST

Vic Short's side are 90 minutes away from an immediate return to top-flight County League football, and need only a draw against their challengers, East Grinstead, at East Court on Saturday.

This anticipated scenario arose after Tuesday night's events, which resulted in home victories for both the promotion-pushers, scores which meant EP were two points clear of EG in the third promotion slot behind Rye and Shoreham.

Catalyst for Tuesday evening's success at home to Oving was the ever-improving striker Lee Farrell, whose two second-half strikes lifted the building tension at the Lashmar.

The Littlehampton Gazette on April 25 has full details of this and EP's two other victories in the past week.