by Chris Harris This isn’t so much a match report as an observation on the changing culture of myself and my contemporaries as we grapple with getting older, as those halcyon days of getting smashed off our faces at football have passed us by, the lagers replaced with the delights of Bovril and Dave defying … Continue reading Match Report, Burgess Hill Town FC 2-1 Lewes FC: The Old Bastards Bovril Club. Getting Old!
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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 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
The Death of Fan Ownership at Lewes FC. The Story. Part 5 — The Denouement.
This is part 5 of my blogs on the ‘How Lewes FC Strangled the Life Out of Fan Ownership.’ The links to the four others are below. by Chris Harris A conclusion and then we ask the question, can it ever work? Out of a club drifting in the fog of decline, something unexpected briefly … Continue reading The Death of Fan Ownership at Lewes FC. The Story. Part 5 — The Denouement.
