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Crystal Palace’s Thin Squad, AFCON, Injuries and Fixture Pile-Up: How the Glasner Backlash Was Inevitable and Patience Required

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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 — and you can see it now all over the Crystal Palace forum. The same posters who have spent the last … Continue reading Crystal Palace’s Thin Squad, AFCON, Injuries and Fixture Pile-Up: How the Glasner Backlash Was Inevitable and Patience Required

A Lesson Lewes FC Can Learn from Burgess Hill Town FC: Club’s Going in Opposite Directions.

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By Chris Harris Anyone who was at Leylands Park on Saturday (3/1/26) for the Burgess Hill vs Lewes game, and who’d been to Leylands Park before, couldn’t have failed to notice that this is a club on the up. I hadn’t been for a few years. Back then, they’d just been relegated into the Isthmian … Continue reading A Lesson Lewes FC Can Learn from Burgess Hill Town FC: Club’s Going in Opposite Directions.

Collection: The Death of Fan Ownership at Lewes FC. The Story. Parts 1-5

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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 instead and ultimately ruined. https://july66.blog/2026/01/02/the-death-of-fan-ownership-at-lewes-fc-the-story-part-1-pre-fan-ownership/ https://july66.blog/2026/01/02/the-death-of-fan-ownership-at-lewes-fc-the-story-part-2-2010-17/ https://july66.blog/2026/01/02/the-death-of-fan-ownership-at-lewes-fc-the-story-part-3-2017-2023/ https://july66.blog/2026/01/02/the-death-of-fan-ownership-at-lewes-fc-the-story-part-4-mercury-13-and-the-stale-whiff-of-decline/ https://july66.blog/2026/01/02/the-death-of-fan-ownership-at-lewes-fc-the-story-part-5-the-denouement/ https://july66.blog/2026/01/03/denham-phoenix-fc-a-satirical-diary-of-a-non-league-football-club-on-the-up-episodes-1-7/ #Lewes #Lewes FC #Lewes FC Women #Non League … Continue reading Collection: The Death of Fan Ownership at Lewes FC. The Story. Parts 1-5