Home sequence vital as King targets playoffs

LEWES Football Club start their bid to reach the Conference South playoffs (or better) at home to Yeading tomorrow (Saturday).
By The Newsroom
Published 16th Nov 2006, 11:34 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 22:50 BST

Lewes have four of their next five league games at home '“ against Yeading, Weston-super-Mare, Dorchester and Cambridge City in the next month '“ and manager Steve King is targeting a big points haul to push the Rooks up the table.

'These games are vital to us, but don't think it will be easy,' said King. 'The Yeading team is the best I have seen in four years and in striker Marvin Morgan and ex-Lewes man Jefferson Louis they have players who can score goals.'

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Roofer Morgan, 23, who was signed from Wealdstone two years ago, has scored nine of Yeading's 24 league goals last season while Louis has netted four in his last three games.

Yeading, who are five places and four points above the Rooks in the table, lost manager Johnson Hippolyte to Maidenhead last month with Tony O'Driscoll taking over as caretaker.

King starts without striker Lee Farrell and possibly Jamie Cade against Yeading while Paul Kennett is suspended.

Cade was injured in a training accident involving Leon Legge on Thursday last week while Farrell was the victim of a rash tackle just after he had scored in the FA Cup defeat against Darlington on Saturday.

Full story in Friday's Sussex Express