The postponement of the annual Worthing versus Albion pre-season friendly is a huge blow for the Woodside Road club.

The potential loss of £20,000 in revenue is a serious matter.

Now County League team Arundel can cash in by hosting Albion's opening fixture next Wednesday.

For Worthing, the events of the last few weeks represent a crossroads. With all due respect to Bognor, Lewes, Eastbourne Borough and Crawley, they are potentially the biggest non-League club in the county.

But the team has consistently underachieved in recent years.

Who is to blame? Not axed boss Barry Lloyd, that's for sure, and his place in Woodside Road history has been cemented by his on-pitch achievements over the years.

I am sure people running the club have the best intentions and, in Morty Hollis and Beau Reynolds, Worthing have two people worth their weight in gold but over the years the club has been allowed to stagnate.

I once interviewed Lloyd for a non-League magazine. He said when he left Woodside Road for The Goldstone in 1986, the annual turnover from bar takings was £80,000. When he returned a couple of years ago, it was nearer £50,000 yet the price of a pint had doubled in that time.

The time for post-mortems is over, supporters deserve a team fit for the Conference, like the one Lloyd created 20 years ago. Unfortunately, he won't get another chance.

Alan Pook is the new man in the dugout and urgent action is required. People behind the scenes must work together and the arguing has to stop, otherwise it will be the same old story of boom and bust that has blighted the Rebels for too long.

The takeover of Chelsea by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is too good to be true. Call me a sceptic but I just can't help myself, it comes from following Albion for so many years.

Chairman Ken Bates appears to have made the greatest comeback since Lazarus. It's true that in his 21 years at Stamford Bridge, Bates has revived the club and turned it into a Premiership force. But before last week's sale, he was within days of seeing his beloved Chelsea going to the wall.

Bates' place in Stamford Bridge folklore is now assured but just think, if the last seven days had turned out differently, he would have been a hate figure with the Blues faithful.

Despite becoming fed-up with crowing Chelsea fans, I'd like to think everything will turn out well.

However, with questions in the House, talk about MI6 and Abramovich's wealth being accumulated in an unorthodox way and in record time, I suspect it might all end in tears.

Village cricket is one of the last great bastions of traditional British sport and Findon are flying the flag for Sussex in the National Village Cup.

An emphatic victory in Sunday's Kent/Sussex final means the men from Long Furlong are into the last 16 and a trip to Lord's is only three matches away.

It will take an excellent team to stop them so, who knows, a day out at the spiritual home of cricket may be on the cards for skipper Nigel Waller and his men in white?