Nigella Lawson joins team to save football club

12 April 2012

Nigella Lawson is taking on Delia Smith as the domestic goddess of football.

The TV cook has bought a stake in Lewes Football Club whose ground is, aptly, named The Dripping Pan.

Nigella, 51, has just dipped her toe in so far with a £1,000 single share in the struggling Sussex non-leaguers, the Rooks. The 125-year-old club was facing ruin before media fans led by playwright Patrick Marber took over last year.

Delia, 70, helped save Championship side Norwich City, known as the Canaries, from bankruptcy in 1997 when she and husband, Michael Wynn Jones, became majority shareholders.

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