It’s no secret the club needs a fiver or two. An ambitious investment scheme is still awaiting a rubber stamp from the authorities, but we could solve the club’s financial problems for the next decade with a simple product launch: Lewes Streaky Bacon™️.

Launched in honour of the men’s team, it celebrates the most streaky side in the club’s 140-year history. Slap a couple of rashers between a bap and sell it for £7.50 from the chip hut. Job done.

Because there’s no denying, them boys are streaky. We, of course, started the season with five wins on the spin, before enduring five leanish months. But now we’ve got the taste of victory again, racking up our third win on the spin against high-flying Dartford.

To put that into context, if we had only played August and March this season, and surrendered every other game in September, October, November, December, January and February, we’d still only be four points behind Bognor.

It felt like the first day of spring at The Pan yesterday, with some fans getting a bit carried away at the first sight of sun. Irish Stu broke out the shorts, Palace Jim turned up in only a T-shirt (well, he had jeans on too – I’m confident the stewards would have stopped him at the gate otherwise). And good fortune shined down on Lewes in the first half.

Don’t get me wrong, we played well. Very well indeed. But there was definitely a hefty slice of luck involved in the opening goal.

I wasn’t at Dulwich last week, but I was told Danny Bassett scored one off his arse. Well, here he notched goal 20 of the season off his back, with Matty Warren smashing a cross into the box and Bassett doing just enough to deflect it past the keeper. If he’s on a goal bonus, he’s absolutely robbing a living at the moment.

The goal was much needed, because Dartford had started the game brightly. Toby Bull had made a couple of good saves to prevent the visitors taking the lead, as we struggled to get to grips with the lively little Olly Box up front, and the equally dinky Samir Carruthers, who was pulling the strings in midfield.

The visitors started the second half brightly too, and they claimed an Edward Woodward seven minutes into it. We couldn’t get a corner clear, and the ball fell to Michael Olarewaju on the six-yard box, who spun and planted the ball past Toby Bull.

The nervous muttering around me in the commentary box suggested most fans expected Dartford to exert their superiority from then on, but quite the opposite happened. We grew into the game.

We were partly helped by their two most influential players – Box and Carruthers – being gobby little sods. Both were booked for dissent and hooked before they had the chance to talk themselves into an early squirt of Radox, and their replacements were nowhere near as effective.

We took control of the midfield, much helped by Matty Warren being released back into the middle of the park and the return of Parish Muirhead, and it definitely wasn’t against the run of play when we prodded ourselves in front. Starkey and Ladapo did brilliantly to catch Dartford napping with a quick free-kick and when the ball eventually got headed back across goal by a poor defensive header, Marcus Sablier was there to stab it home.

I don’t think I’m being unduly harsh on Marcus when I say finishing isn’t the strongest part of his game, but he took the match winner like Mo Salah. Muirhead put in a delightful ball over the top, Sablier trapped it like a bag of cement, and then dinked a cute little shot past the keeper to make it 3-1 and keep the winning streak going.

It’s an early start for the long journey to Canvey next week, to see if we can make it four on the trot. Just enough time for a Lewes Streaky Bacon™️ sandwich before you head off.

Lewes: Bull, Meeres, Spinks, Kaiser (Antonio), Ojemen, Warren, Muirhead, Sablier, Starkey (Jones), Unwin (Ladapo), Bassett (Ekpiteta).

Supporters Club man of the match: A bit harsh on Sablier perhaps, who took his brace brilliantly, but Parish Muirhead was superb in the middle, and the assist at the end was a peach.

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