Imagine if you will being born. A comfortable float around a womb that you are quickly starting
to outgrow. It has to end. Something's got to give. Then the pushing and the seepage and the
screaming and hey presto, pro-lifers everywhere pat themselves on the back, someone done a baby. As
a life event, it is perhaps the most dangerous, perilous and traumatic your body will ever
face.
Hove, Aldrington, Portslade, Fishersgate, Southwick, Shoreham-by-Sea, Lancing. The train rumbles
westward allong the coast from Brighton for an unexpected treat, an FA Vase Third Round match
between Lancing, of the Sussex County League Division Two and Witham Town, of the Essex Senior
League. The FA Vase, as many of you will be aware, was first competed for in 1975, following the
FA's abolition of the formal distinction between professional amateur players.
