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