Crawley Town!

[steveizy]

Swindon 2 - Crawley Town 3

Crawley left it until 2 minutes from the end of extra time, but they did it!!

Crawley play Derby County at The Broadfield on the 8th Jan 2011 in the third round. In their present form, Crawley could do it! What a match this is going to be.

Nothing has changed in the league with all recent matches postponed due to the weather.

This Saturday Crawley face Dartford in the FA Trophy. Dartford are a league below but will be looking for a scalp here. A tough game for Crawley methinks.

[dub]

No no A walk in the park..
COME ON YOU REDS

[gonzo]

No No No ! in your dreams
Dartford will take the scalp....

[steveizy]

Lol

Steve Evans is really talking-up Crawley's chances against Derby, but he is quite respectful of Dartford. As you would expect...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 269580.stm

Realistically, Crawley's best hopes for a Wembley appearance lie with the FA Trophy but if this fairy-tale continues who knows what could happen.

Nigel Clough and Derby County are going to be rightly respectful of Crawley.

Who needs the Premiership when all this action is taking place on our doorstep!

COME ON YOU REDS!

[steveizy]

The match with Derby County is now on 10 Jan, instead of the 8th.

Steve Evans has made national headlines after his views on Manchester City's "spendthrift" Sheikhs

See http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... unComments , including my comments to the bigots on there

http://www.crawleytownfc.com/newsdetails.php?ID=1767 .This "gaffe" was a brilliant way of getting Crawley Town into the national press, especially as the retraction is a somewhat half-hearted " politician's apology" - Wonderful, Excellent and Crafty. Tee Hee!

[steveizy]

Crawley Town 3 - Dartford 2 in the FA Trophy.

Phew, Dartford were 2 - 0 up at half-time, but Crawley came back in the second half and somehow did the business.

There must have been some serious talk in the Crawley changing-room at half-time

Still a great result for Crawley, who progress to the next round. Steve Evans (and me ) were right to consider Dartford a real threat.

COME ON YOU REDS

[dub]

Somewhat of an exciting match..
Crawley Town are rapidly becoming a force to be reckoned with.
to come back from 2 0 down is very impressive it's the stuff champions are made of !
Watch this space and COME ON YOU REDS

[steveizy]

OOPS

The result was a 3-3 draw, not 3-2 as I stated yesterday. I shall be a bit wary of http://www.flashscores.co.uk/ although they are not the only ones as the Sunday Express (printed) has it wrong too.

Anyway a draw is better than the defeat it could well have been and Crawley did well to salvage the match by the sounds of it. The replay is due to take place on Tuesday 14th December 2010, kick off at 7.45pm. http://www.crawleytownfc.com/newsdetails.phpt?ID=1772 has the story.

[steveizy]

Sorry for the break, I have just been magically reconstituted from a lump of pink goo, santa-s-trip-from-an-engineer-s-perspective-t354.html

Unfortunately, Crawley narrowly lost the replay at Dartford. Dartford 1 - Crawley 0, so Crawley exit the The FA Trophy. I thought all along that Dartford would be tough opposition and this has proved to be true, alas.

This is really a "non-event" post since the league matches have all been postponed due to the weather and Crawley remain second, with a game in hand, in the Blue Sq.

Crawley are generously offering free admission to their game against Hayes & Yeading on Tuesday 28th December 2010 at The Broadfield, see http://www.crawleytownfc.com/newsdetails.php?ID=1788 for details. K.O. 3 pm. I think that this a nice gesture and I hope that it helps them build the fanbase

Then, in the new year, Crawley will play their biggest match ever. On Monday, 10th January 2011 they will face Derby County at The Broadfield in the next round of the FA Cup. Crawley will be trying to do a "Dartford" here and I think Crawley will pull this off.

Thanks for reading my ramblings this year, I have enjoyed rambling and I hope that we have more to celebrate/speculate in 2011.

Happy Christmas to all and, more importantly, COME ON YOU REDS

[steveizy]

YEEEEEESSS!

Crawley 2 - Derby 1

I knew that they could do it - wow!