Sport: Hastings boss labels league cancellation “laughable”
Hastings United boss, Chris Agutter, has labeled the decision to cancel another non league season as both “hilarious” and “laughable”. Hastings United have now led the Isthmian south-east division at two separate points of cancellation, denying them a fair go at promotion. Agutter, quite understandably, is not happy about the latest voiding. “If you don’t… Continue reading Sport: Hastings boss labels league cancellation “laughable”
Sport: National League North and South season cancelled
Clubs from the National League North and South have voted to declare their respective seasons null and void. Football clubs from the National League North and South divisions have voted to render their respective seasons null and void, and immediately cancel all remaining fixtures. The results of the league-wide vote were announced on Thursday night,… Continue reading Sport: National League North and South season cancelled
Sport: Lewes chairman questions Govt non league support
Lewes FC Chairman, Stuart Fuller, has questioned the Government’s handling of a non-league support fund. Stuart Fuller, Chairman of Sussex non league club, Lewes FC has raised a number of issues with the DCMS’s Winter Survival Package for British spectator sport. The financial support fund has been cut from £14m to £10m with zero explanation,… Continue reading Sport: Lewes chairman questions Govt non league support
Sport: Southwick FC is coming home!
Southwick FC has won the battle to return to its home stadium, Old Barn Way. Southwick FC will be returning to its home stadium, Old Barn Way, after resolving a leaseholder dispute with Adur District Council. Tony Kybett, Chairman of Southwick Football Club (1882), said: “We are absolutely delighted that we have been given the… Continue reading Sport: Southwick FC is coming home!
Tier 3 rule change paves way for Non League football return
A limited number of fans in Tier 3 areas will be able to spectate non-elite sporting events, according to new guidance from the FA. The FA has announced that a limited number of spectators will be permitted to stadiums currently under Tier 3 restrictions, helping to pave the way for the return of Non League… Continue reading Tier 3 rule change paves way for Non League football return
Titus Bramble Championship GW10: Draftfellas
What day is it? What shops can we go to? How many people am I allowed to have in my sightline? We live in a time of great questions and we are all as clueless as Chris Kamara at Fratton Park. Luckily we at the Titus Bramble Press Office have been led by the science… Continue reading Titus Bramble Championship GW10: Draftfellas
Titus Bramble Championship GW8: 2020: A Draft Odyssey
Gameweek seven was an oddity of our times. The wildfires of chaos that typify our modern life were extinguished by the forces of rationality and reason. Real Shepperton beat Karius Fan Club, Muschampions ground out another win, the Red imps fell back to lesser ways and an imperious AVERAGE performance brought Sporting CSB back to… Continue reading Titus Bramble Championship GW8: 2020: A Draft Odyssey
Whitehawk FC appoint Ross Standen as first team coach
Whitehawk FC have appointed Ross Standen as first team manager to replace Jude Macdonald with immediate effect. The club have appointed the former Horsham assistant manager and Lewes co-manager following a 3-0 defeat to Cray Wanderers in the FA Trophy. Behind Standen in the dug out will be Stuart Tuck and Tony Coade. Tuck, a… Continue reading Whitehawk FC appoint Ross Standen as first team coach
Titus Bramble Championship GW7: Draft finds a way
Gameweek six was one to forget for a great many reasons: The goals dried up, all the big lads blanked, Real Shepperton lost, VAR decisions ruined ties and the spirit of fair play was seemingly abandoned for a weekend – all equally awful occurrences. The Titus Bramble Championship was not safe from the chaos of… Continue reading Titus Bramble Championship GW7: Draft finds a way
Titus Bramble Championship GW6: Life in the Draft lane
Gameweek 5 eh? What a week that was. We had highs, we had lows, we listened to Underoath at 3am, it was a real time I’ll tell thee. The week that is has now become that which was, so a recap is surely in order: Karius Fan Club kept up their tradition of losing to… Continue reading Titus Bramble Championship GW6: Life in the Draft lane
Titus Bramble Championship GW5: The Draft Who Loved Me
Remember Draft? Remember how good life was before the fun-vacuum of the international break rolled in and fucked everything up? It often seems incomprehensible that we ever felt happy, that we ever woke up on a Saturday with a heart full of hope, a Skybet account full of cash, and stomach ready to be full… Continue reading Titus Bramble Championship GW5: The Draft Who Loved Me
Pressure mounts on the Government to admit football crowds
The #LetFansIn campaign has gained considerable traction in the past 48 hours with a slew of high-profile clubs throwing their weight behind the cause. With clubs from the UK’s seventh tier of football and below having successfully welcomed fans back to their grounds (with social distancing measures in place) teams higher up the pyramid are… Continue reading Pressure mounts on the Government to admit football crowds
It’s (almost) come home
Ring the bells, dance in the street and rejoice. Non league football is admitting fans – albeit at reduced numbers and with social distancing measures in place. In one small way football has come home. The incumbent Tory government has got football very wrong, very often. Since the Covid pandemic kicked off we have had;… Continue reading It’s (almost) come home
Sussex Football Roundup Saturday 03 October
Whilst the Premier League saw perhaps the most absurd weekend of its history it was pretty much service as usual down in Sussex Non League. First off, they say that the more things change the more they stay the same, and it would seem that such is correct, for whilst the world is changing at… Continue reading Sussex Football Roundup Saturday 03 October
Titus Bramble Championship GW4: Draft, by M Night Shyamalan
Sunrise, sunset. All good things must come to an end and nothing gold can stay. Luckily draft is neither good nor gold so it is back for another Gameweek packed full of intrigue, outrage and arguing over assist accreditation. Before we cast eyes forward to our gloomy horizons we must cover what happened in GW3,… Continue reading Titus Bramble Championship GW4: Draft, by M Night Shyamalan
Sussex Football Roundup Saturday 26 September
Over the weekend many of Sussex’s non league teams held their first Covid-secure league games, and it would seem successfully so. Club staff and hardy volunteers all did their bit to ensure that games went ahead in Whitehawk, Lewes, Eastbourne, Peacehaven, Burgess Hill, Horsham, and Littlehampton but to name a few, and for this they… Continue reading Sussex Football Roundup Saturday 26 September
Titus Bramble Championship GW3: He who drafts last, drafts longest
Gameweek 2 was the perfect reflection of our current lives – chaotic, bloated and largely miserable. In amongst the rubble of our former lives three entire days of football took place and with them came an absolute shedload of goals. In what quickly became the Battle For The Bale, Sporting C.S.B trounced Karius Fan Club… Continue reading Titus Bramble Championship GW3: He who drafts last, drafts longest
Titus Bramble Championship GW2: Do or do not, there is no draft
This week Draft has been furloughed. -ENDS- Continue reading Titus Bramble Championship GW2: Do or do not, there is no draft
Titus Bramble Championship GW1: Return of the Draft
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Draft, the Beginning and the End.” – Titus Bramble Draft. Draft never changes. Much as the sea returns to source and the night shall have its dawn, draft, draft never changes. It is inevitable, it is indefatigable, it is a constant reminder of our… Continue reading Titus Bramble Championship GW1: Return of the Draft
Lewes FC: Coming Home
My love affair with Lewes FC began the season after they were really very good, a period which I still doubt the actuality of to this day. Having spent the majority of my years as an armchair Premier League fan I was very much taken in by non league when I realised I could watch… Continue reading Lewes FC: Coming Home
Lewes FC: Let there be light
Sean Paul once said “Just gimme da light” and now Lewes Football Club are asking the same as the club turns to the community for much-needed stadium improvements. Whilst Sean Paul may or may not have been talking about the plight of a Sussex non league football team in his seminal 2002 hit, his words… Continue reading Lewes FC: Let there be light
Saturday down The Pan
A non league love affair of rainy days, shit lager and even worse football. It’s 13:30 on a Saturday. You stare down at a half-eaten sandwich, the one you thought would sort you out but hasn’t. It sits as a monument to your depravity on the sofa next to you, tucked neatly between the paracetamol… Continue reading Saturday down The Pan
When Whitehawk went to Guernsey
Written by Josh Boyd All images (Including header) by Tom Barlow Brown: Instagram: @Tom_BBrown // Web: TomBarlowBrown.com About 20 minutes after a triumphant viewing-deck-pint on a ferry heading south from England, two of our group were head-in-hands sea sick. The boat, now in the English Channel proper, rocked from side to side, the horizon dipping… Continue reading When Whitehawk went to Guernsey
Brighton Undercurrent 