Category: Rymans League
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Walking football
Growing up I pleaded with my Dad to buy every house we saw for sale on our walk from the car parked near Plaistow tube station to The Boleyn Ground. Wouldn’t it be brilliant to live next to a football ground? I used to believe that the players spent every waking hour at the ground…
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Speaking out of turn
Let’s start with the positives. Our matchday poster got national media attention. We scored the best goal of the game and the crowd of 769 was the second biggest in the Ryman League South this season and the third biggest at step 3 and 4. Reasons to be cheerful 1, 2 and 3? Alas the…
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Notes from the Main Stand
The first instruction is written down and is given to me. As I head down the steps to tell Ross that James Hammond should take the free-kick, I can hear Darren shout “Get ‘Ammo to take it..” Hammond does indeed take the free-kick and he curls it perfectly into the top corner to give us…
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Decisions in nobody’s interest
The rain continued to fall, the puddles started to join together to form a lake. Running with the ball became impossible (as the above picture from the awe-inspiring James Boyes shows), passing the ball became a lottery and trying to make any timely tackles was a recipe for disaster. Whilst it was amusing to watch,…
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LIfe in the gutter
Strategising over, and safe in the knowledge that we think we were heading in the right direction it was time for some football. To turn again to Wilde, Lewes came into this game well and truly in the gutter but recent form had seen us not only looking but in the words of S Club…
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Conditional decisions
The first victory of the day was over the elements. Heavy rain overnight may have dampened the pitch but not the spirit of everyone at the club. Alas, in true Lewes style the elements rallied and scored a late equaliser. At 1pm when the referee arrived, the pitch was playable. At 1.45pm after over half…
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Screw you guys, I’m going home
To be fair there was a dozen or so titles I could have used for this mini-blog about my visit to watch South Park. Not since Rhubarb & Custard Rovers went bust back in 1978 has a football club spawned its own animated show. Not even the Oil and Gas billions of Chelsea and Manchester…
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We’ll win nothing with kids….probably
Nobody will get carried away with the result from the first game of Pre-season but those who did see the game will have all seen something we haven’t seen for a long time as Lewes fans. Players playing without fear. No fear of making a mistake. No fear of taking players on. No fear of…
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Tales from a Non-League Chairman – Tale 11- Pre-season opponents
Gone are the days when most of the team that plays in these games would have first team experience. Go and watch an Arsenal XI these days and you will see players who will never even get a sniff of the bench for League Cup 3rd round games. Anyone who has a first team future…
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Waking up the neighbours
The one ray of sunshine has been the news that the club have bought the option on the land to build the new stadium. There’s no houses close by (thus no potential NIMBY influence), surrounded by a crematorium and a driving range and access would be direct onto the A20 dual carriageway. It would replace…
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The Nowhere Men
It has come to something when I now get a formal nod of respect from others who tread this lonely path. I made by scouting debut some years ago, but it wasn’t until this season that it become a regular gig. I now look after “Scouting operations” in Kent, London and Essex. Sounds flash, eh?…
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Mine’s a tale that cannot be told
It didn’t seem that all those other Non-League fans had the same desire to watch a game this afternoon. Only 75 watched this very entertaining game, seven souls down on average. Perhaps they felt there was no way this game would go ahead, or perhaps Lakeside proved to be a better draw. Burnham-On-Crouch is not…
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Jacks of all trade
If the magic of the FA Cup could be bottled and sold on market stalls around the world, it would contain the spirit and essence of this tie. Five goals, last minute drama, an expectant passionate crowd, the infamous sloping pitch and conditions that would test the best in the world. At the final whistle…
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A strange case of Mimi Labonq
It’s games like these that make a successful season. The Lewes of old would have wilted in the setting sun, uneasy with the direct pressure the East Thurrock team put us under. But these days they are made of stronger stuff and a goal in either half was enough to fairly take all three points.…
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Folkestone unconquered
Two years ago only one division separated the two clubs, as Folkestone Invicta finished runners up to Croydon in the Ryman South, but their ascendency lasted just one season, finding themselves back within twelve months. Last season they reached the playoffs but narrowly lost to the new giants of Kent Football, Maidstone United. So it…
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