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Karen Dobres

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Author, ‘Pitch Invasion: my Story as a Feminist on a Football Club Board’. Activist, speaker. Former director at Lewes FC, first club to equally resource men & women http://bit.ly/karen-pitch https://muckrack.com/karen-dobres-1

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"Didn't Know Women PLAYED!" Former Lewes FC Director On Lionesses WIN & EQUALITY In FOOTBALL
"Didn't Know Women PLAYED!" Former Lewes FC Director On Lionesses WIN & EQUALITY In FOOTBALL YouTube video by talkSPORT Women's Football

youtube.com/watch?v=UNLv...

#equalityfc #fansofchange #womensfootball #pitchinvasion

18.02.2026 10:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah! The wonderful Gail Newsham has written a brilliant book about the Dick, Kerr Ladies: ‘In a League of Their Own!’

27.01.2026 22:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Grateful for the kind words, and to @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social for running the piece 🙏

27.01.2026 16:09 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks so much. Once I knew about the attempt to ban lesbianism and the link with women’s footie, I had to write it!

27.01.2026 16:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Can football lead the fight for equality? | RSA Journal Presents
Can football lead the fight for equality? | RSA Journal Presents YouTube video by RSA

Grateful to the Royal Society of Arts Journal for liking ‘Pitch Invasion’ enough to come down to The Dripping Pan & make this short vid about Equality FC….
@lewesfcwomen.bsky.social @lewesfcmen.bsky.social

youtu.be/_WbjOMRwCVI

08.10.2025 17:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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. @karendobres.bsky.social popped by this morning to sign a few copies of her new book 'Pitch Invasion' ⚽️

Pick up a copy below & read about her ground-breaking journey as director of Lewes FC.

www.resident-music.com/product/dobr...

11.08.2025 11:33 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Cassell to publish Karen Dobres' female-focused memoir 'challenging football patriarchy' Cassell, part of Octopus Publishing Group, it set to publish former model Karen Dobres' female-focused memoir "challenging football patriarchy".

Thanks to @thebookseller.com for this piece on #PitchInvasion
#preordernow

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07.03.2025 08:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Excited to have a book coming out this year! 📕
Cassell publish ‘Pitch Invasion’ in July. It’s my story of going from football-shunning feminist to director on a football club board, via a passion for gender equality. Ever felt like an outsider? Pre-order here: www.waterstones.com/book/9781788...

03.03.2025 10:00 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Booker Prize judge to chair the Rooker Prize 2025 – Lewes Community Football Club Lewes Football Club is an English football club based in Lewes, East Sussex, who play at The Dripping Pan. Women’s team play in the FA Women’s Championship; Men’s team play in the Isthmian Premier Lea...

Congratulations on your panel!
Please do share our writing competition with your followers 😊 lewesfc.com/news/booker-...

24.02.2025 09:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Booker Prize judge to chair the Rooker Prize 2025 – Lewes Community Football Club Lewes Football Club is an English football club based in Lewes, East Sussex, who play at The Dripping Pan. Women’s team play in the FA Women’s Championship; Men’s team play in the Isthmian Premier Lea...

Hi Claire, would you kindly share our writing competition amongst your followers? And please enter yourself! 😊

lewesfc.com/news/booker-...

24.02.2025 09:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Baroness Lola Young to Lead Lewes FC's Annual Writing Competition In an exciting development for the literary and football communities, Lewes FC has announced the launch of its fourth annual writing competition, The Rooker Prize, with Baroness Lola Young appointed

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#writers #writingcompetition #writersofbluesky

19.02.2025 13:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Baroness Lola Young to Lead Lewes FC's Annual Writing Competition In an exciting development for the literary and football communities, Lewes FC has announced the launch of its fourth annual writing competition, The Rooker Prize, with Baroness Lola Young appointed

Are you an aspiring writer?
Lewes FC has you covered…
www.footboom1.com/en/news/foot...

@lewesfcsupporters.club
@leweswalkingfb.bsky.social
@lewesdc.bsky.social

12.02.2025 17:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lewes FC player Olivia Carpenter has made it to the final 100 of the Puskas Awards. Can we get her to the top 8 by voting & sharing? Easy to do, watch here: www.peoplespuskas.com/contenders/o...

#comeonyourooks #equalityfc #lewessupporters #peoplespuskas #livcarpenter #thisgirlisonfire

11.02.2025 14:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Matchday poster depicting a pink face with blue hair and two football eyes, held by arms from two other women. A winged, eye flies above. The caption is ‘See Us As We Are’ . The match v Hashtag United takes place on Wednesday evening at the Dripping Pan in Lewes.

Matchday poster depicting a pink face with blue hair and two football eyes, held by arms from two other women. A winged, eye flies above. The caption is ‘See Us As We Are’ . The match v Hashtag United takes place on Wednesday evening at the Dripping Pan in Lewes.

Another match for Lewes FC Women, another work of art posing as a matchday poster from feminist pop artist Charlotte Colbert…gorgeous, intriguing, makes you think ♥️
#matchdayposters #popart #seeusasweare #equalityfc #lewesfc

10.02.2025 18:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Another amazing pop art matchday poster for Lewes FC Women from feminist artist #CharlotteColbert
What do you see?
How do art and football connect?
Why is women’s football a feminist issue?
#SeeUsAsWeAre #EqualityFC #LewesFC

07.02.2025 19:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great piece on the tangible difference it makes to a football club when you identify as ‘Fans of Change’ 💪

09.12.2024 12:36 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Love this write-up - thank you ♥️🖤

09.12.2024 12:35 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Great to be interviewed for #KarenCarney ‘s new documentary on women’s football, ‘The State of It’. Always living in hope that women’s football can move forward independently of the men’s game, in order to 1)keep its culture and 2)thrive according to its own hard won values.

06.12.2024 14:33 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Still, after 7 years of astoundingly biased comments and conversations, cannot believe how often (some) men presume their perspective is the only way of engaging with the world. Just mind-boggling to anyone without full privilege. As in film, so in football.

22.11.2024 14:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0