Lifelong Fulham fan Beku Lewis sadly lost his characteristically courageous battle against cancer earlier this month. He was only 31 years of age.
Beku faced a brutal diagnosis with the same honesty, humour and humility that saw him pack so much into a life that was cruelly cut far too short. Many of us grew up alongside him on the terraces at Craven Cottage or at away grounds up and down the country. I didn’t realise I knew Beku until a Fulham social media post last season shared that he’d be invited to Motspur Park to meet Marco Silva and the first-team squad. We’d struck up a conversation on the concourse at Wembley before the Championship play-off final because we were both wearing the 1996/97 GMB shirt. He remembered me when we met on a train to an away game after the pandemic. He was brilliant.
I didn’t know Beku well but many Fulham fans did. His Fulham family have asked for the Cottage to stand and applaud in the 31st minute of Saturday’s match against Leeds United. It seems a simple thing to do for someone so special, who was taken from us far too soon. I hope you’ll join us in clapping for Beku on Saturday. He’d scarcely think he was worth the attention – but he absolutely was.
Rest in peace, Beku. You’ll never be forgotten.