The Match and the Patch

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Football fans from Northern towns hit the capital city Sharp-dressed, pretty   sure to take the opportunity to take in a record shop and rifle through vinyl score a winner reach the final   Make their way to Covent Garden … Read more

Lewes Labour International Women’s Day celebration

Venue: St James Clubhouse, 11 Blatchington Road Seaford, East Sussex, BN25 2AB Janine begins each half of this event with some appropriately-themed poetry. There will also be speakers and other activities. The theme is women in sport.

Online Launch: Football is Poetry

Image of Janine wearing Peterborough United scarf

Football is Poetry is a 48 page poetic football sticker book , Compiled and edited by Mark Coverdale & Owen Collins , Illustrated by Mark Coverdale , Featuring: Attila the Stockbroker, Matt Abbott, Andrew Blair, Simon Blood, Janine Booth, Rob … Read more

Run

cricketer

Her cover drive and how she ran are now haram under the rule of the Taliban Can she stay in? For sure she can She can’t be out without a man in ancient, new Afghanistan She’d tackle assumptions and she’d … Read more

No Man is an Island (except perhaps Ian Botham)

Botham says that England is an island

If England is an island Is Wales an offshore reef? Is Scotland an Atlantic bay? What’s Ian Botham’s beef? Is Hadrian’s Wall a seaside prom? Is Offa’s Dyke a coast? Does Botham know where the boundaries are? Or has he … Read more

Women footballers escaping the Taliban

Kelly Lindsey

Published in Women’s Fightback 26, Autumn/Winter 2021     Kelly Lindsey, former head coach of the Afghanistan women’s football team – and before that, US international player – spoke to supporters before Lewes FC women’s home friendly against West Ham … Read more

From the Lewes Lightning Laureate …

playing cricket

More info about our cricket team here. We’re Lewes Lightning We’re a little bit frightening We’re hitting up a storm We roar like thunder Over and under When we are on form We’re young and older Fierce and bolder Than … Read more

Peacehaven Primary’s Pool

Peacehaven Heights school

– a villanelle about this. Kids needed somewhere safe to swim so locals raised funds for a pool, got sponsor forms and filled them in Again they shook donation tins to keep aquatics at the school, to keep the children … Read more

Down and Up with the Mighty Posh

Posh going up

We only needed a draw. We didn’t even need to score unless we let one in. We didn’t even need to win, Just make sure they didn’t. The point the draw would have given and the two it would take … Read more

Super League? An absolute shocker …

super league

Published in Solidarity 589, 21 April 2021. Europe’s richest football clubs have announced an exclusive Super League, but have met with near-unanimous opposition. This is a move by Europe’s richest clubs, not its best clubs. One of England’s ‘Big Six’ … Read more