View From the Field: Caragh Hamilton on Lewes’s Relegation

In her second She Kicks column, Northern Ireland international Caragh Hamilton gives a frank first-person account of Lewes’s relegation from the Championship, pushing back on the narrative that their limited resources made the drop inevitable. The winger argues that Lewes had a squad capable of survival but let winnable games slip late on, pointing to a blown 2-0 lead against Reading and a 4-3 defeat to leaders Sunderland after leading 3-2 deep into stoppage time. She contrasts Lewes’s fate with Sunderland’s own near-promotion from a similarly-resourced position the previous year, concluding that budget alone does not determine outcomes in England’s fiercely-competitive second tier, and that how a squad uses what it has matters just as much.