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This week, our cartoonist looks in a strip at the relegation of Worthing Football Club.

Our photographers bring us Worthing College's football team in their Sussex semi-final, Worthing rugby club's two teams and some vivid action in their Sussex cup finals at Horsham on Sunday and exciting shots of Worthing Thunder's turnaround Play-offs Championship home semi-final, plus there is a striking portrait of England Schoolboys first-choice James Fraser with our lead story about Worthing Football Club's exciting youth team.

Our reporters bring us that Rebels Youth team report, our look at what's hanging on Worthing's final match of the season, and their important forthcoming board meeting. And Harty speculates afresh on that long-speculated subject: can Rebels ever quit Woodside? Oh, and, you've guessed it: Harty has met Alan Ball. And liked him.

We find Worthing United have scrubbed their Reserves side as well as being beyond relegation recall except by default. Lancing pulled off their survival key result at Saltdean but Storrington slid deeper into the mire.

We outline what's at stake for our three local teams in the six Sussex Cup Finals of hockey coming up at St Andrew's this weekend. We were at the Sussex rugby finals, of course, and Worthing are naturally our Team(s) of the Week.

We name the new overseas player and two other other newcomers with whom Worthing Cricket Club embark on a new season in the Sussex League this Saturday.

Sompting Football Club lose their chance to claim the runners-up spot in the Worthing League: we report how. And report on AC Azzurri's three-peat.

And in water polo, we discover just how successfully Worthing Swimming Club's excellent Under-16 team tackled their debut in the National Junior Cup. Cheltenham were their formidable oponents . . but not formidable enough for our lads!

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