The Rights of Fans Lewes FC Fanzine

The Importance of the Matchday Programme: By Jacob Waller

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The Importance of the Matchday Programme: By Jacob Waller

Great article from a non league programne producer/editor #nonleagueprogramne

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Burgess Hill 1–2 Billericay: A Match Report, a Restaurant Review, and the Old Bastards Arrive A sort of match report, a second defeat in a week, a restaurant review of Leyland Park Bovril, the inaugural launch of the Old Bastards Bovril Club and Word goes surreal. by Chris Harris So for the…

A sort of groundhopping and wry and satirical match report pseudo lifestyle blog #nonleague
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Lewes FC: Officially Fan-Owned In Name Only? by Chris Harris For years, my view of Lewes Football Club has been pretty consistent: we’ve had too many directors who treat the club like their own personal fiefdom. Yes, we’ve also had brilliant …

Sadly, Lewes FC is a fan owned club, seemingly no longer owned by the fans, but by some clever people running us into the ground and telling us nothing. #Lewes #LewesFC #LewesFCWomen
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Lewes FC: A Football Club From Brewery Town Who Couldn’t Run a Piss Up in One. Pt 1 The Replica Kit Launch Debacle. by Chris Harris This is the first in a series highlighting the comedic goings on (gags!) at Lewes FC. Only Lewes Football Club could make a complete hash of launching a 140th anniversary replica ki…

New blogzine out soon, here is a taster. The Rights of Fans issue 1 & Lewes FC Fanzine issue 21.
#Lewes #LewesFCWomen #LewesFC
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Buy Lewes FC’s 140th Anniversary Replica Shirt and Change the World. But Hurry Before the World Get a Chance To. By Chris Harris The logo says it all. Suspending belief when you receive an email from Lewes Football Club, is not uncommon. Who can forget the true comedy gold gems, the £10 million valuation and …

Bloody hell, a replica shirt according to Lewes FC must be bought before they make it available to the 'world' Man the delusion and BS that comes out of my club
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Crystal Palace’s Thin Squad, AFCON, Injuries and Fixture Pile-Up: How the Glasner Backlash Was Inevitable and Patience Required by Chris Harris Football fans are fickle. We all know that. But there’s a special kind of flick-of-the-switch fickleness that creeps into a club when it’s been comfortable for just a bit too long —…

Thoughts on the fickleness of the football fan!
#CrystalPalace #CrystalPalaceFC #CPFC
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Collection: The Death of Fan Ownership at Lewes FC. The Story. Parts 1-5 by Chris Harris Below is a 10,000 word thesis, broken up into 5 manageable sections on how a thing that should have been amazing for the town of Lewes was strangled and used as a branding mechanism…

A 5 part thesis on how fan ownership failed at Lewes FC #lewes #lewesfc #nonleague
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People will be queuing down the road for this gigantium 1p saving!

Football club feels 'targeted' by spate in vandalism The football club says it has fallen victim to vandals multiple times since moving to its new base.

Football clubs are such important parts of the community, anyone who does this is truly loathsome
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Ha ha, I get that! Of course the football is the key ingredient and nobody wants to be shit, it is with us we have killed proper fan ownership and now need to be bailed out all through gross mismanagement and that is the polite description.

It is unbelievable, we are still crippled by it, we also blew a massive legacy donation from the departing benefactor who bankrolled the club. You couldn't write it!

Completely agree, we have lost 40% of our membership in the last couple of years as our culture was manufactured, vacuous and people smelt the bullshit and left.

The Bullshit Detector: Lewes FC’s Barcelona Delusion by Chris Harris New York Times Athletic 12/7/21 “When I talk about our ambitions off the pitch – which are connected to those on the pitch – they are to become the most fan-owned football club in t…

Ha ha, the story behind Lewes FC’s directors claim they would become bigger than Barcelona! Have a good laugh!
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How Mercury 13 Deal Was Meant to Save Lewes FC Women But Instead Helped Relegate Them by Chris Harris How Mercury 13 Deal Was Meant to Save Lewes FC Women But Instead Helped Relegate Them For years, Lewes FC Women punched well above their weight. They competed in the Championship wi…

Think about it (or read below), the Mercury 13 debacle was not just a fuck up off the pitch, it facilitated the Lewes FC Women's relegation too. A brace of ineptitude. Ho ho ho
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Every dog has its day, time to play test cricketers not one dayers #ECB #Ashes

How Lewes FC's plan to emulate the popularity of Dulwich Hamlet FC failed at the altar of failing to do things properly and embrace proper fan culture.
#LewesFC #DulwichHamletFC #NonLeagueFootball
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The Diplomat on Netflix is a brilliant drama, but this is Chequers in the last series, an iconic red brick UK institution, relaced by a grey brick US mansion. Piss poor. #shitvisualeffects #shittv

Great to hear this humdinger blast out of a Triumph Stag during the last episode of Down Cemetry Road
#theclash #punkrock #lewesfc

Inside Denham Phoenix FC: A Fantasy Weekly Non-League Football Soap-Part 3: Manager, Hilario Vincent is Caught Thieving by Chris Harris Greg was beginning to put the final touches to his new Board of Directors, adding the last few names and shaping the structure he hoped would carry Denham Phoenix FC not just throug…

Part 3 of my non league spoof diary
#nonleaguefootball #lewesfc #footballstory
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Last Night’s AGM: On the Brink of Collapse or a Fresh Dawn? by Chris Harris I don’t share the doom and the gloom. There comes a point in every long running story when the narrative can no longer sustain the myths that once held it together. Last night…

Lewes FC are now in deep financial trouble, it was revealed at the AGM last night, no surprise, but maybe this can see off the egos and poseurs running the club and we can rebuild again as so many positive things at the club still
#lewesfc #therightsoffans #lewesfanzine
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Inside Denham Phoenix FC: A Fantasy Weekly Non-League Football Soap — Part 2: Introducing ‘Economical’ Tony Inside Denham Phoenix FC: A Fantasy Weekly Non-League Football Soap — Part 2: Introducing ‘Economical’ Tony by Chris Harris Promotion changed everything at Denham Phoenix, suddenly char…

Part 2 of my weekly non league football satire, a disastrous date does not hinder Gregg Lyons pre season preparations and the issues with Big Mal are resolved.
#nonleague #lewesfc #footballcomedy
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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
#Lewes #LewesFC #LewesFCWomen
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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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