The Rights of Fans Lewes FC Fanzine

I am being interviewed by this outstanding German magazine, next Saturday, at my house with a photograper! It transpires it is most read footie mag in the world! For some reason interested in Lewes FC. Looking forward to meeting them and finding out why. #LewesFC #NonLeague

Inside Denham Phoenix FC: A Fantasy Weekly Non-League Football Soap — Part 1: What Century Did He Die In? This is part one of a weekly comedic and unlikely tale of the trials and tribulations of a noon league football club. As Denham Phoenix FC hurtles into the National Non-League pyramid, Gregg Lyons …

A new football soap serialisation, a satirical and funny journey into the lives and loves of the characters at Denham Phoenix FC, A Sussex non league club on the rise. How will the new promotion to the Welex Waste Products Div 3 pan out? #nonleague #lewesfc
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I Know What I Heard. The Barcombe UFO. The time of year matters: it was November, and from memory it was 1993 or 1994. I was living in the flat attached to my parents’ large farmhouse in Barcombe, East Sussex. I remember I was on my own…

It is illogical to deny the existence of UFOs, I've heard one, read my blog. I Know What I Heard. The Barcombe UFO.
#UnidentifiedAnomalousPhenomena #UFO #UAP #Paranormal #UFOSighting
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Panic, Not Process: Why Lewes FC’s New Managerial Knee Jerk Recruitment Process Fails the Basics I can’t, hand on heart, see any reason why Craig Nelson is a better prospect for Lewes FC than Bradley Pritchard, and I believe this knee jerk appointment is further evidence of a board lost in the…

You don't just throw a manager under the bus and rush out and get the last manager back. Zero professionalism and foresight yet again the decline continues.
#Lewes #LewesFC #LewesFCWomen

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“Come on Board and Tell Us the Truth” It’s explicitly clear in our Community Club constitution that the board is expected to be transparent. At Lewes FC, however, boards have never really bothered with this expectation, but we’ve now r…

Some questions for the board as Lewes FC becomes, very sadly, embroiled in turmoil, what is going on? Come On Board....and Tell Us The Truth
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Nandy urges instant sale of Morecambe FC to avoid ‘heartbreaking’ closure Culture secretary calls on owner Jason Whittingham to avert misery for fans, players, staff and local community

Can't we just keep the spivs out of football? Hollow words Nandy.Act. #MorecombeFC www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Why I’m Giving Away £50,000 Worth of Vintage Stock And Feeling Great About It Another bundle for Free Cycle If you’ve been in the vintage or antique trade long enough, you know the score. That growing mountain of unfinished projects, job lot leftovers , yes all with “potenti…

Yes, I’ve given away £50,000 worth of vintage stock, and I feel great about it. Here's why,
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#VintageBusiness #RestorationLife #DeclutterToGrow #AntiqueTrade #LetGoAndThrive

Selling the Lewes FC Women Isn’t the Only Way But It’s Certainly The Easiest Cop Out The scaremongering. There is “no option but to sell,” really is completely untrue and totally misleading. While the current board insists on this hard sell, the numbers tell a very diff…

A closer look at football club governance at Lewes FC—and how fragile fan ownership becomes when basic business protocols are cast aside in favour of the easiest, route. Why has the club overlooked its local human resources and businesses for a quick cash grab?
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I love this old poster for London Calling!
#theclash #londoncalling #punkrock #bestalbumever

Who Ate All the Pies? Why Non-League Football Still Sings the Loudest and Keeps British Football’s True Spirit Alive Few football chants are as instantly recognisable, or as gleefully insulting as the timeless insult: Who ate all the pies?Who ate all the pies?You fat bastard, you fat bastard,You ate all the pies!…

Bored, so here is a minor anti-dissertation on the classic 'who ate all the pies' terrace classic, and the decline thereof.
#LewesFC #FootballChants #NonLeague #FootballBlog

The Cost of Living: The EP That Bridged The Clash’s Growing Pains and Their Greatest Triumph When you look back at The Clash’s discography, it’s tempting to jump straight from their ferocious debut to the iconic masterpiece of London Calling. But in between came the rather dismal Give ’Em …

A blog on the EP that marled the transition of the Clash into one of the most revered bands ever.
#theclash #punkrock #punkrockblog

The Damned’s 10th Anniversary Tea Party: When Fate, Karma and Alcohol Collide. The Big D. Finsbury Park, London – Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th July, 1986. Seems a bit odd to write about a gig I went to 39 years ago. I can’t remember much about the performances—it’s all a bit of a blur,…

A belated concert review. Going back to 1986 and an amusing tale of bad behaviour, but good and bad outcomes at Finsbury Park with the Damned and a naked Captain Sensible #thedamned #punkrock
#misspentyouth #badbehaviour #menbehavingbadly

The Guns of Brixton: The Clash’s Warning Shot Before the Storm October the 16th 1989 myself and my friend Adam saw ex Clash frontman and national treasure Joe strummer perform at the Brighton Top Rank on the earthquake weather tour. On October the 17th 1989, t…

Off footie for a bit and indulging myself with a new blog about another love of mine; the Clash. #theclash #londoncalling #punkarticle #punkrock #clashreview

Voting ends tonight. My forecast. John Peel re-elected, great shame, two from the Football Foundation and two of the 'Equality FC' social issue driven candidates who have never been to Lewes or a game before. I'd love all 5 from the FF but two will represent a turning tide against Lewes FCs decline.

A Club at a Crossroads: The 2025 Lewes FC Board Elections. Prof A I Chat meets the Candidates A Club at a Crossroads: The 2025 Lewes FC Board Elections FOOTBALL NOT POLITICS The 15 applications for directorship at Lewes FC reveal a significant divide within the club, a de facto culture war …

Interesting battle for the Lewes FC board, 15 candidates, a divisive split now at the club between proper long term volunteering fans and people from around the world enamoured by social issues and Equality FC #lewesfc
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My wife is standing for the board. Desperately hope she does not get elected as will present problems for the fanzine, which obviously regularly criticises the board. A resume of the election coming imminently. Guess who she is, clue is the most radical manifesto! #lewes #lewesfc #nonleaguefootball

📢 LEWES FC EMERGENCY TARIFF UPDATE. The Tariff Era Ends On Friday, we became the first football club in the world to inroduce tariffs. 📢 LEWES FC EMERGENCY UPDATEThe Official Newsletter of The World’s Most Financially Creative Football Club™Special Tari…

Celebrate the Lewes FC tariff u turn and get mugged off with a 40 quid commemorative mug! #lewes #lewesfc
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Lewes FC Newsletter. Special Edition: The Tariff Era Begins 📩 THE LEWES FC NEWSLETTEROfficial Newsletter of the World’s Most Innovatively Unprofitable Football ClubSpecial Edition: The Tariff Era Begins Dear Loyal Fan / Financial Hostage, We hope this email…

Getting back to a spot of satire, with predictable Trumpian u turn to follow! #lewes #lewesfc #footballtariff #footballblog #nonleaguefootball

A Critical Look at the Latest Lewes FC Holding Ltd Proposal. Desperate Stuff. Some thoughts on the latest resurrection of the Lewes FC Holdings Ltd proposal as set out in the club email 18/3/25. We will update this with, in keeping, the subsequent ‘making it up as they go al…

Things at Lewes FC going at a rapid pace. Seemingly in response to me saturating my blog over Facebook, the club 36 hours later announced a huge uturn. And just now another whiff of burning rubber, another uturn!

‘It’s All Gone Quiet Over There’ – Is the new Lewes FC Business Plan Turning to Farce, as the FCA and FSA Step In? Ah, another day, another half-baked scheme at Lewes FC. The problem with ‘brainwaves’ and that classic word for fail at Lewes FC, ‘smart ideas,’ is that they tend to explode in your face. At first …

The investment proposal at Lewes had all gone quiet, in this blog on Sunday I explained why. The club hadn't done their homework and involved the FSA and FCA as required, absolute amateurs. #lewesfc #nonleague
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Lewes FC Holdings Limited Update There was a Supporters Club meeting earlier this week with updates from a director. The proposal is progressing and now hinges on approval from the Football Supporters Association (FSA) and the Fin…

A quick update on the progress of the Lewes FC Holdings proposal. Headline is the response from members expressing interest in investing is £150,000. Standard industry practice is 15-25% of that interest materialising into investment. #lewes #lewesfc #nonleaguefootaball

The Price of Mass Membership is the Dead Democracy at Lewes FC. At Lewes FC, what was once a supposed beacon of fan ownership, has now become a hollow democracy. The original model was meant to empower the local community, where fans who live and breathe the cl…

Why the club needs to focus on driving local membership, and how the policy of global membership growth has killed off any true democratic pathways for proper local fans, and members to influence club policy. Within is a link to another blog about the club’s use of X.
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At last a win. Hastings 0 1 Lewes at the fantastic Pilot Field. The bedwetters can forget about relegation, but the club needs to sort itself out. Do we fund the burgeoning bureaucracy or players? Are we a football club or an experiment? #Lewes #lewesfc

Lewes 1 vs Bowers & Pitsea 1: You just keep us hanging on How late do you want your goals? We left it to the 89th minute to notch against Whitehawk in midweek, and here we waited until four minutes of injury time had passed before opening our account. For…

Match report from yesterday from Barry, versus Bowers and Pitsea where we scraped a late draw. Talk of relegation is surfacing, but I think we have enough points in the bag and the teams below us are showing no scent of form.
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Lewes FC: A Comedy of Errors. Fund the Team not the Bureaucracy or We’ll Go Down. Guest blog by themountfieldtoad A round of applause for our new guest blogger themountfieldtoad! Welcome to the tragicomic opera that is Lewes FC, a club that has somehow become the footballing embodiment of a Shakespearean trage…

Lewes FC: A Comedy of Errors. Fund the Team not the Bureaucracy or We’ll Go Down. Guest blog by themountfieldtoad. a wry look at why we are spending money on more office staff rather than players as relegation looms next season, of not this. #lewes #lewesfc #nonleagueblog

2/2 He will also approach the Minister of Sport about why the FA does fuck all for non league football except bucket loads of lip service #Lewes #lewesfc #nonleague #footballblog

1/2 My wife and I visit our MP who was great today and will tackle Lewes FC over what h/2e describes as 'inconsistencies' between what Lewes FC says and what it actually does #Lewes #lewesfc #nonleaguefootball

Actually, is Rúben Amorim the Worst Manager in Manchester United History? When Rúben Amorim took the reins at Manchester United, fans expected a new chapter—though few predicted it would be a tragicomedy. Ten games into his tenure, with just two wins, three draws, and fi…

Moving temporarily out of non league, absolutely fascinated by the weird goings on in the Man U hotseat. Actually, is Rúben Amorim the Worst Manager in Manchester United History? Have a read, #manu
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Thanks very much to Lee Vahit at the Isthmian League, the one class act so far we have dealt with so far on the assault on my wife outside the Dripping Pan. Lewes FC handling of this has been despicable and the polar opposite of club policies.
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Lewes FC Where Hardcore Fans Don’t Count and People Who Do Not Know Where Sussex Is Do The board’s refusal to include non-card carrying, loyal, match-going fans in the decision-making process over Lewes FC Holdings Ltd is not only insulting—it’s actively undermining the club’s future…

Why are people who couldn’t find the Dripping Pan, home of Lewes FC, on a map calling the shots on our club’s future, while the loyal fans who actually show up, spend money, and know Lewes FC inside out are being completely ignored?
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