Supporters
After Steve King and almost the entire playing squad left the club after promotion in 2008, attendances dipped considerably. However, in the season following the clubs initial transition into community ownership, at the end of September, attendances were 81% higher than the previous season's average. Despite poor results and relegation, Lewes finished the season with an average gate of just under 700, the 7th highest in the Conference South in 2010/11.
Lewes fans share a rivalry with local Sussex neighbours Eastbourne Borough, Horsham and Worthing. The rivalry with Eastbourne grew as the two clubs battled at the top of the Conference South in 2008 and bank holiday fixtures between the two have attracted large attendances.
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Famous quotes containing the word supporters:
“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“His [O.J. Simpson’s] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)