‘It’s ridiculous!’ – Eighth-tier match postponed after four international call-ups

Ben FlemingPublished Oct 11, 2024, 6:10pm|Updated Oct 11, 2024, 6:12pm

An eight-tier shot lucifer acceptable to instrumentality spot this play had to beryllium postponed aft 1 nine had 4 players called up for planetary duty.

Lacing, based successful West Sussex, were acceptable to look disconnected against Three Bridges successful the South East Division of the Isthmian League connected Saturday.

However, the nine person extraordinarily had to inquire for a postponement aft 4 of their players were called up by their respective nations.

Charlie Gibson and Sam Bull are presently successful Croatia competing for England’s six-a-side squad astatine the World Minifootball Federation (WMF) U23 World Cup.

But the colony nine besides mislaid midfielder Knory Scott and guardant Luke Robinson who volition some beryllium 3,500 miles distant representing Bermuda successful their Concacaf Nations League fixture against Dominica.

Premier League and Championship clubs automatically person their games rescheduled during the planetary break, but different clubs further down the footballing pyramid tin inquire for a postponement if they person 3 call-ups.

‘It’s ridiculous for a nine astatine this level,’ Lancing president Barry Sutton told BBC Sport.

‘To person 1 idiosyncratic called up [Scott, past year] was thing we celebrated, but to person 4 disconnected successful the aforesaid week is unheard of.’

Scott is successful his 2nd twelvemonth astatine the nine having signed from Hastings the summertime anterior and past twelvemonth became the archetypal subordinate successful Lancing past to triumph a afloat planetary headdress portion astatine the club.

He is present joined successful the grounds books by Robinson, a erstwhile academy subordinate astatine Brighton, who joined the nine this summertime from Whitehawk.

‘Knory [Scott] is simply a beauteous lad – quiet. You couldn’t anticipation to conscionable a nicer guy,’ Sutton added. ‘Luke has been astir a batch of clubs astatine a higher level.

‘To person planetary players is thing we’re enormously arrogant of. We’ve got a Bermuda emblem which we bent up down 1 of the goals each location game.’

Lancing beryllium 20th successful the league with 4 points from their archetypal 8 games. The nine are playing astatine their highest level successful past having been founded successful 1941.

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