Join us at Crossbar Brighton for an evening of fun, honest conversation and rule-breaking energy with Karen Dobres, author of Pitch Invasion and former Director at Lewes FC, and Lucy Tallant, co-founder and owner of Crossbar Brighton, hosted by Pippa Moyle, Founder of City Girl Network.

Together, we’ll be talking about success, leadership, confidence, belonging and what it really takes to build something different — whether that’s inside a football club, a bar, a business, a community, or a movement.

This isn’t just a conversation about football. It’s about the spaces women aren’t always expected to occupy, the rules we’re told to follow, and the moments where we decide to do things our own way instead.

Tickets are free, but please RSVP to help us keep an eye on numbers.

About Karen Dobres

Karen Dobres is a writer, former counselling therapist and former Director at Lewes FC, where she helped create the pioneering Equality FC project. Despite having no previous interest in football, Karen became part of the first football club in the world to pay its women and men players equally, leading campaigns to welcome “unwelcome women” into the game. Her book, Pitch Invasion: My Story as a Woman on a Football Club Board, shares her funny, honest and powerful story of turning outsider status into a force for change.  

About Lucy Tallant

Lucy Tallant is the co-founder and owner of Crossbar, the UK’s first Women’s Sports Bar in the heart of Brighton. Crossbar is creating a space that celebrates community, connection and culture of women and sport, as well as bringing people together through events, conversation.