Been away - back now

Been unable to post for a few weeks, due to a dead computer and having to use public PC's to get online. I now have a super-duper quad core PC that goes like shit off a shovel, and hopefully is here to stay. Best of all, I've loaded Windows XP onto it, so I don't have to use that bloody awful Vista nonsense!
Anyway, back to the matters in hand. While I have been away there have been many and varied reasons to laugh at Lewes, and I've taken advantage of them all!
Boxing Day - Lewes visit Eastbourne Borough, claiming to be full of hope due to their improvement in form. Now, this improvement is a relative thing, translated it means they have managed to steal a couple of points from teams that are doomed to relegation, and have beaten clubs from lower divisions in cup matches. So how did their confidence pan out? They were fortunate in meeting a Borough side that played like they were badly hung-over and really didn't want to be there. The best that can be said about Borough was that they looked, for large periods of the game, like a Ryman League South team,and not a very good one at that.
Fortunately, the new, improved Lewes looked like a pub second-choice Sunday league side, and the game ended up 1-0 to Eastbourne. That goal is really all that is worth talking about in a really dire game. that and the fact that Lewes decided that, one down in a local derby against a very, very poor Eastbourne side, they would use the brilliant tactics of pulling every single player back, waste time whenever possible, and use four players as cebtral defenders, a couple of defensive wing backs, and everyone else run around like headless chickens trying to chase the ball, and keep behind it.
This was a game that Eastbourne did not deserve to win, quite frankly; however, Lewes were so bad that they certainly deserved to lose - in fact, from about the third minute of the game, it looked inevitable.
The only other thing of note to emerge from the game was the Lewes' fans reaction after the game was over. They were complaining, as per normal and as their old guru Steve King taught them so well, that they were the better team, they had been robbed, it was all the referee's fault and so on, but even funnier, how they would not allow the kind of people who follow Eastbourne into the Bed Pan on New Year's Day for the return fixture. It seems the population of Eastbourne is too rough for the poor sweet souls of lewes. Why?
Well, they think that it was 'unfair' and 'unacceptable' that Boro fans sang 'Aministration! Administration!' at them, and 'Where's Your Money Gone?' (to the tune of 'Last Night I Heard My Momma Singing A Song'). Well, Lewes ARE going into administration, after five years of out-spending everyone in the Blue Square South and getting very little return for a massive investment (Lewes call this 'brilliant management') - this season the club has been forced to stop spending wildly, or face the personal bankruptcy of their directors. And nobody else is willing to invest in a loss-making and incompetant set-up like Lewes.
They also got very angry at us singing 'Where's Your Criminal?' (same tune) as they have bought a serial criminal and jail-bird for the team. Again, this is unacceptable, apparantly, and Lewes fans would never stoop to insulting visiting players.
Maybe Lewes would be better off leaving football altogether, and instead become an indoor bowls club or, better yet, a syncronised swim team. They are no bloody use at football, and the passions of the game seem to be to much for the poor little dears to bare. Something less exciting, less interesting and less passionate than football may be right up their street - just a sec, that seems to be what Lewes FC are doing now anyway!
Bored now, will return soon with the New Year's Day Massacre of Lewes report, more reasons to laugh at Lewes, reports on Castle Village, and other meandering thoughts as received.