Yems banned for 15 months for 12 incidents of discriminatory comments. I’m afraid this triggered the change in sentiment among Crawley’s fan base to the owners once they suspended him. You had Kevin Betsy his replacement booed and chanted at, at his FIRST home game. Not good sadly, dark ages...
But Ian what have the crypto bros at Crawley done that is in any way comparable to what Archer did? They appear to have stuffed up managerial appointments by having a preference for hiring younger academy managers rather than grizzled old blokes with 10 sackings behind them, but that’s hardly a...
I mean he worked at Brentford, which is a pretty successful set up. Where do Crawley fans think they are going to get their DoF from? Manchester United? Barcelona?
While the owners have made obvious mistakes like their recent choice of manager, their results on the pitch have not been that...
I think there is more going on here than meets the eye. I’m a very big sceptic of crypto involvement in football, particularly its ambition to detach the fan experience and fan culture from watching games live, but I do fear the crypto bros aren’t the worst people involved in this story. When...
At the moment paying the players? In exactly the same way as how they bought the club, out of their own pockets. Remember the NFT community they want to create is only on the drawing board and it’s going to take a while for it to produce revenue for the club. In the interim they are going to...
The podcast from the new owners is really interesting, if you half an hour to kill, listen without prejudice
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-joe-pomp-show/id1593114026?i=1000556511687
Obviously the whole world are going to be sceptical, I am too, but is there a tiny chance it might work? The new owners have paid 5 million so they've demonstrated their goodwill by that. There are no assets to strip, the ground is owned by the council. Few can really predict the latest turns in...