Why is it worth getting the Gazette this week?

Littlehampton Football Club come out after the annual meeting with a rallying call to the town. And a new lottery.

Our town cricket club come unstuck and their unbeaten start is ended. Not good news, either, is Adam Tester's fate on Saturday. And on Sunday, Horsham end an interest in the Cockspur Cup that, as skipper Ben Challen explains, had begun to pall a little, anyway.

Match of the Week? No question: it's East Preston's tie. Read how Ram messed up good and proper, to grab embarrassment from the jaws of a victory that would have been too comfortable for EP to dwell on for long in inquisitive company. Just the distracting story Sean Rebbetts' fans didn't want obscuring that of his fine 107.

Team of the Week? No question: that's Arundel. They've won all three, now, and only Storrington can equal that among the 1st XIs.

They've got the Bowler of the Week, too: Rakesh Parmar with another six-wickets of leg-spin opening the Arundel attack. Our pictures mean that you now know what he looks like - if you need someone, who's passing by, to stop and quickly bowl out the precocious nephew who's ruining your game in the park because you just can't dismiss him.

Incidentally, we're told the Arundel club badge depicts a martlet. We're more romantic than that. We prefer to think it's a swallow, like the many that skim the waters of the Arun in front of the castle on a gloriously warm, sunny morning in one of that quintessentially Arundel scene. So we're dubbing Arundel the Swallows. Some stick-in-the-mud will email us and say it's got to be a martlet. Just like tons of other club badges in Sussex. And then Arundel will slip back into that oh-so-common anonymity . . .

Unlike the Mullets down at the Football Club.

Back to the plot . . .

Plenty of other cricket, including Clymping who, like Arundel, are division leaders.

We've got golf news from Ham Manor, Littlehampton and Rustington.

Tennis from Angmering-on-Sea

Stoolball stuff

The local Soccersixes League

Plus wider news and features, including Worthing Football Club's Youth XI (they've won their Isthmian League Cup) and No 1 keeper Rikki Banks; local ex-Pegasus legend, Ken Shearwood; Worthing Harriers in league action, Sussex in the County Championship of rugby; and youth football at Worthing Town Sixes.

And the bowls results!