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by Chris Harris. A Reassuring Statement… But Not the Full Story At first reading, the Board's financial statement of 29 June is encouraging. It confirms that Lewes FC's operating budget is fully funded through to May 2027, removing any immediate concerns over whether the club can complete the coming season. That is undoubtedly welcome news … Continue reading Investment, Equity and Equality FC: What Are Owners Not Being Told?
A long goodbye with love as Lewes FC enters a different era What I Want to Communicate to Local People About Lewes Football Club A long goodbye with love as Lewes FC enters a different era. Pete Bull Lewes FC has built one of the most powerful stories in non-league football: supporter ownership, Equality FC, … Continue reading What I Want to Communicate to Local People About Lewes Football Club by Pete Bull
An innocent rhubarb growing competition between a couple of best friends escalates into full scale growing combat and violence in Part I of this tragi-comic satire. Part 2 later this week. by Chris Harris Illustration by Louise Turner Big Dave and CJ were the best of friends. They spent the first twenty years of their … Continue reading Custard, Crumble and the Roobarb Punch. Part 1
by Chris Harris The Toads World Championship. From Sussex Alehouses to South American Taverns From Toads to Sapo and Tejo Walk into the right Sussex pub and you may still find it lurking in a corner: heavy brass discs, a scarred lead board and battered scoreboards hanging on walls stained by decades of smoke and … Continue reading Toads: The Sussex Pub Game That Secretly Escaped to South America
by Chris Harris Part two of a short story, the local church roof is callously stripped, incompetence, character assassinations, indignation, in a fast-moving tragi-comic yarn in two parts. A conclusion ir reached in this speedy and funny whodunnit. Set in the fictitious village of Denham and Lewes, East Sussex. Original artwork by Louise Turner. Podcast … Continue reading The Great Denham Lead Heist. Part 2
by Chris Harris Over the past few months, I’ve been documenting something I’d talked about doing for years: writing and publishing a book. These pieces were written as it happened, recording the ideas, the writing, the mistakes, the editing and the occasional moments when I wondered what on earth I’d started. The book now exists, … Continue reading Welcome to Denham. Bringing A Village to Life: A Writer’s Journey Part 2. The Short Story and the Art of Navel Gazing.
by Chris Harris Over the past few months, I’ve been documenting something I’d talked about doing for years: writing and publishing a book. These pieces were written as it happened, recording the ideas, the writing, the mistakes, the editing and the occasional moments when I wondered what on earth I’d started. The book now exists, … Continue reading Welcome to Denham. Bringing A Village To Life: A Writer’s Journey Part 1
Part one of a short story, the Sussex pub game Toads, the local church roof is callously stripped, incompetence, character assassinations, indignation, in a fast-moving tragi-comic yarn in two parts. Set in the fictitious village of Denham and Lewes, East Sussex. by Chris Harris Original artwork by Louise Turner. Podcast about the story etc. Toads! Our … Continue reading The Great Denham Lead Heist. Part 1.
by Chris Harris and AI The oldest animals at Dripping Pan Farm still remembered the days before the Revolution. Back then, the Farm had been tired, threadbare and permanently short of feed. The owners in charge barked orders from the 70s clubhouse while the ordinary animals huddled together beneath leaking roofs and rusting turnstiles watching … Continue reading Dripping Pan Farm.
“It is a situation most perplexing, Miss Lemon,” Hercule Poirot declared, twirling the ends of his immaculate moustache with grave precision. “You remember the Mercury 13 investigation from a couple of years ago? The situation, I regret to say, remains most… unsatisfactory. There are inconsistencies, contradictions… and, how do you say, a distinct aroma of … Continue reading Poirot-And The Mystery of the Lewes FC Investor
by Chris Harris A “Heartfelt Thank You” That Screams Desperation The Board’s email, titled “A Heartfelt Thank You,” is supposed to reassure. It is supposed to steady the club and calm concern. Instead, it does the exact opposite. Strip away the tone, and what you are left with is not confidence, but desperation. This is … Continue reading Last Roll of the Dice: The Risky Gamble That Could Cost Lewes FC Men Everything
by Chris Harris Lewes FC is Out of Time: Do We Need To Sell or Downgrade? The one thing we need to do is recognise that nearly all of last year's excellent new board members resigned, and this year nobody from the UK, except Lisa, who is already on the board, has stood. In fan … Continue reading Out of Time. The Lewes FC Board Need to Go. We Then Sell or Regroup.