Well, not only does this 2023-24 season find them rubbing shoulders with the former Football League Club in National South, it has featred two Rebels victories over the Gulls.
Early in the season Adam Hinshelwood’s team won 3-0 at Plainmoor, an early sigh the Rebels were a force to be reckoned with. And now they are celebrating a double, completed with a 4-2 win in the return game at Woodside Road.
Dylan Fage, Danny Cashman (2) and Ollie Pearce were the scorers as Worthing protected their three-point lead in second place – with the Rebels looking good for a play-off place with 16 games to go.
See Mike Gunn’s pictures on this page and the ones linked – and get Hinshelwood’s reaction on this website and in the Worthing Herald during the week.