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The blue print for Non League football – 1 year on
May. 5 | Last March, after really diving in head first into the non league game, I took stock of the game I had come to watch week in week out and put pen to paper (well, finger to laptop) and wrote a nine-point blue print for the future of Non League football....
CBA Saturday
May. 1 | When the dust had settled on Saturday evening regarding the shake up for the play off spots in the Rymans Premier League the set of results struck me as very strange indeed. A total of 55 goals were scored in the 11 games played – an average of exactly...
Well that was one hell of a season
Apr. 29 | So it all comes down to just 90 minutes of football. The whole season will be decided not only by events at The Dripping Pan, but also at Grosvenor Vale, HA7 and Ram Meadow, Bury St Edmunds. Despite the excellent form of the Rooks over the past two...
I get around…
Apr. 21 | ….from town to town, I’m a real cool head, I’m makin’ real good bread” A trip to Canvey Island on a wet, wild and windy April afternoon probably doesn’t feature in any Top 100 Days Out in England programmes, but for...
Draycott, Lord of the Manor
Apr. 14 | “Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity” Every football team in every season has one defining event, the moment that decides the fate of the team, the players, the manager and the club. That moment may be a refereeing decision, a...
Prudence, transparency, trust and 3 points
Apr. 9 | “There are rich teams and then there are poor teams. And then there is us” That isn’t a quote from one of the current board of Lewes FC, although it could quite easily be one. It is from the excellent film, Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt...
It’s not a results business is it?
Apr. 7 | “Well I want you to understand somethin’. To me, being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It’s not about winning. It’s about you and your relationship to yourself and your family and your friends” So much pressure...
One beer, two pies, three goals, four minutes
Apr. 1 | In the past two weeks Lewes have dropped 3 points in injury time against teams in the top 3. After the heartbreak of a home draw against Lowestoft Town came the sickening blow of a 93rd minute winner for league leaders Billericay Town last Saturday. However,...
The heart of a king but the body of a woman
Mar. 25 | Back in the days of Henry VIII when the boat was the only method of continental travel, Tilbury was THE place to be. It was like the Las Vegas of England. It was the hotbed of sin, and the home of the finest culture. Quite simply, everyone who was anyone...
