ALEX Pike admitted "I've got to look at what I want out of football" after Gosport Borough's season of promise ended in despair.

Borough were beaten 5-2 at home by relegated Hayes & Yeading, leaving them ninth in the National League South.

The club's well-documented financial problems pulled the rug out from under their feet as they were pushing for the play-offs and an emotional Pike confessed: “I ask myself if I’ve got the stomach for a fight.

"As a manager do you really want to make a knee-jerk reaction and say maybe I've taken Gosport as far as I possibly can?

"These are a good bunch of honest players and what they have done for the club in my time, the last ten years, has been absolutely magnificent. The team spirit they've had has been snuffed out like a pilot light."

Saturday was the farewell home game for Borough's all-time record scorer Justin Bennett who, typically, signed off with a goal.