Tag: Lewes
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Dulwich Hamlet 0 Lewes 2
Saturday 28th October 2023 – The FA Trophy – Champion Hill, Dulwich Champion Hill is one of a few grounds, used at the semi/professional level where I can claim to have played at, and scored. However, like old Wembley Stadium (MPs XI vs The Football Trust at half-time as a photographer, circa 1997), it wasn’t…
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Lewes 1 Leicester City 0
Now this was how I imagined doing proper commentary, with those microphones that almost stick to your top lip, a big monitor in front of me and frequent remote controls. With the producer sitting almost next to us, anything we wanted to see again, we could. The stream was going out to over 300 viewers…
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Tough at the top, tougher down the bottom
Down in the Bostik League South (as with in most other Non-Leagues), today was the first of four games Lewes played in the next nine days. Our players and physios head home to their families tonight for Christmas and some will return to their normal jobs tomorrow and even Christmas Day before regrouping on Tuesday…
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Friendly Fire…or how to navigate through the pre-season dance
The words of Slaven Bilic apparently. Not sure what definition of Scandinavia he has read but according to Encyclopedia Britannica, Iceland is a Nordic Island Country and not part of Scandinavia. But even so, what a flimsy reason to suggest why the game is being played there. I certainly struggled to find any evidence of…
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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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Dorking hell
If the players believe in themselves then the fans will follow, just as they did yesterday when over 80 Lewes fans added some noise and verbal encouragement to the afternoon. How much of a difference does that make to the team? An unbelievable difference. Players want to play for teams where the fans care. Opposing…
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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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Master of none
A normal pre-match for me involves a pint, chatting with some of my fellow fans, an in-depth discussion with Darren on our opponents and where the strengths/weaknesses are before preparing myself for any tricky names to read out on the team sheet. Today I’m having to find the charger for the substitutes board, that should…
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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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Our Road to Wembley is closed for another season
At 1.30pm Darren had chosen his team. At 1.35pm he had changed his team and then again at 1.45pm as the coach arrived at Kingsmeadow. I met Baz in the tunnel and even then the starting XI wasn’t finalised. When it was there was one player making his debut, young Jack Whitmore in central midfield,…
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It’s all in the interpretation
So Charlie has to stay off the pitch, whilst a free-kick in a dangerous position, which more than likely he would have taken, was easily cleared. Post match according to the referee, Charlie’s injury was not quickly assessed and that is why he left the field, despite the fact he was busy dealing with events…
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The tide has turned
Today the mystery and glamour of the Eternal Derby (take your pick between Rome, Belgrade and Sarajevo) has been well and truly debunked thanks to Social Media. We’ve all stood on the Sud Tribune at the Westfalonstadion in Dortmund, right? Or been hit by a toilet brush as the Spakenburg derby. European football no longer…
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Sealed with a kiss
Brentwood Town face a dilemma of their own as to whether they can make the necessary investments in the ground to bring it up to the required standard to remain at this level. Work needs to be completed by the 31st March, which would include a significant increase in the number of seats at the…
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The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune…again
The scars of last season’s debacle have been forgotten by most at the club, although the initials FA certainly don’t mean the Football Association in these parts. It’s fair to say that our governing body didn’t come out of the whole affair very well, and even at a meeting before Christmas with the chairman of…
The Ball is Round 