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Can Crystal Palace Fans Dust Down Our Passports for 2025/6?
14/4/2024 could well have been a defining moment for Crystal Palace FC. Under the steady if unflattering stewardship of Steve Parish Crystal Place are now an established Premiership club. I believe only the usual top 6 and Everton have berthed in the top flight longer.
It may go down as over a decade of bodged governance bailed out by Wilf Zaha, but the facts are facts we are an established if…
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‘It’s So Unfair,’ The Death of Women’s Egalitarian Football. Lewes and Durham Women to be Sacrificed at the Altar of Greed.
“There might be some casualties,” Campbell says, “but that’s going to be the reality.”
Thus Sue Campbell, Head of Women’s Football with The Football Association 2016-23, glibly evaluates the future of the Lewes FC Women and Durham FC Women continued presence in the top 2 flights of women’s football.
I have argued ever since the start up of the Women’s Premiership and Championship that women’s…
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The Lewes FC Board Must Act. Fit and Proper Tests for Board Members Now Please.
Morning Glory…what’s the story?
Andy Gowland. A Lewes FC board member recently resigned from the board. The story is that he was elected acknowledging that he had never even been to a Lewes game. He was the main board cheerleader for the failed Mercury 13 deal. The deal fell through, Andy Gowland resigned from the board afterwards and now is employed by them. Let me make it clear the fanzine is …
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The Rights of Fans Lewes FC Fanzine Issue 20 The 8 Main Articles. Spring 2024
Below are the eight main articles from the Spring 2024, issue 20, of the Lewes FC Fanzine. The Rights of Fans.
A wry commentary on a community club being hoisted by its own petard as the finances crumble, investments fall by the wayside and the fans get pissed off.
Editorial. An overview.
Lewes FC Fanzine Editorial. The Sinking Ship. Feb 2024
The failings of community ownership at Lewes…
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Hope Springs Eternal as 23/24 Lewes FC Board Address the Toxic Legacy of Previous Boards
Hallelujah, after 15 years a Lewes FC board finally reaches out properly to the community for help to run the club properly. A small article on the club website signalled a shift, long needed, to stop the relentless squandering of money, goodwill and resources at the club through financial and governance mismanagement.
What is the story?
The new board have reached out to people in the community…
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Playing Away. A 20 Year Decline from Partying to Grizzling at Non League Away Games.
By Chris Harris
Do you go to watch non league football for a party, a good booze up and a bit of fun. I did. Ever what happens when you get older and grow up? I’ll tell you my experience in this article. For most people an away game is the simple process of travelling to follow a football club you love wherever they go or maybe just following them occasionally when it suits. Lots of brilliant…
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Reality. The Crouch Report Scathing Deliberations on Lewes FC Governance.
There is no greater damnation of the governance of Lewes FC than the Tracey Crouch Fan Led Review. Whether you are left wing or right wing this was a review that gained massive support from all political parties such was the thoroughness and the merits of it’s conclusions.
The fact it reads like a poor class report and ticking off for the way Lewes FC has been run for the last few years…
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A Bizarre Mexican Stand Off and Why The Board at Lewes FC Are Bottling a Vote on Possible Investment.
Lewes FC have been in negotiations with an investment consortium, Mercury13, who wish to take control of 51% of the Lewes FC Women. Although I have said for years, to the denial by people at the top of the club to the contrary, that we are in a financial mess, this proves we are.
The board have been negotiating this deal seemingly for a year and yet the owners are given 6 days to fire in some…
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Another Fine Mess. The Great Mercury 13 Debacle at Lewes FC
It takes a scary kind of ineptitude to run a small community club into the enormous financial peril Lewes FC is in. Rather than cut costs to a sustainable level, the Board of 2022/3 decided to try and sell a majority stake in the Lewes FC Women to Mercury13. Thereby intending to: 1) smash our privilege of 100% fan ownership, 2) destroying the one thing all fans and members are proud of, Equality…
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The Three Rs: reuse, recycle, return
by Eloise Cheary
“Setting an example and aiming to be better should be a core aim of the club”
It is a well known fact that many plastic items wilfully making their way to a recycling plant, don’t ever actually end up being recycled. Those that do, may be going through a recycling process which uses significant energy and resources to recycle the plastic. This is why there has been a…
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Lewes FC and the Death of our Community Club.
For nearly 15 years Lewes FC have never really fitted into the community club mould. Too many directors from the outset simply followed a non-conformist independent directive. The rules of community ownership are enshrined in our constitution and have been neglected. Prior to the launch of Equality FC many directors fought to establish the principles of a community club for Lewes, but since…
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Lewes FC, Poirot and the Murder of the Mercury 13 Investment Deal. A Mystery Spoof.
The diminutive Miss Lemon was daydreaming in the stuffy office of the great detective, Hercule Poirot, the windows were all closed in case germs enter the room. The fastidious Poirot always maintained they played havoc with his poor digestion. Miss Lemon knew the real problem laid in his awful diet, but you never questioned the great Poirot.
‘Ah there you are Miss Lemon, perhaps you could book…
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Lewes FC's Case for the Defence. But no Prosecution in Sight. The Town Hall Presentation Part I
During the ‘consultation’ period to consider the Mercury 13 proposal we saw very little consulting at the first Town Hall meeting. Just the case for the defence. One sided argument in favour fronted by the Board of Directors. In this first blog about this crucial ‘meeting’ I will do my own ‘myth busting’ about the proposal. The first half hour was essentially why the board feel we need to accede…
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Lewes FC’s Values Collapse Along with Property Prices.
As the continued mismanagement of the British economy sees property values fall, so do the principles and values of Lewes FC facilitated by the continued mismanagement by the board of directors. They blow up and float of to the land of Failure.
I could write a long essay and expand on the above claim but let us keep it simple.
Having survived a financial scare in 2008/9, the newly formed Lewes…
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Tale of Two Ownership Models
Lewes FC are in the financial doo dah again?
Yes, as things stand the money has dried up again! We are back to where we were nearly 20 years ago. Any doubts of whether the well really is running dry can be dispelled with Maggie Murphy departing. I doubt this would be the case if things were rosy in the financial garden.
The parties over, again?
Yes, Groundhog Day for some of us. Those of us…
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Bleak Finances.
Without further ado, let’s take a layman’s view of the finances!
Why a layperson?
A layperson is a person without professional or specialized knowledge in a particular subject:
A layperson’s view is often the best way to take a view on these things because generally when it is left for people within finances to explain finances there is a lot of presumption that you will know what they’re…
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Lewes FC Women Set to Leave The Dripping Pan?
I mentioned in a previous blog that the Lewes FC Women may leave the Pan. However, now more facts have been released, I would bet on it.
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On Friday, the board released the long-awaited Q&A document with a little more detail on the Mercury 13 proposal of the investment…
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