Nothing, wrong end of the stick here. Amusing that BBC managed to find three knowledgeable Crawley fans and one took the opportunity to show his real passion
[Football] Stay classy Crawley- and if Crawley Town FC were a dish?????????????
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Nothing, wrong end of the stick here. Amusing that BBC managed to find three knowledgeable Crawley fans and one took the opportunity to show his real passion
I thought it was quite amusing because the lad was very passionate talking about Crawley in the interview but wearing a jacket with another teams badge.
Nothing, wrong end of the stick here. Amusing that BBC managed to find three knowledgeable Crawley fans and one took the opportunity to show his real passion
Fair enough
nickbrighton
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its not that long ago our fans were asked-yeah, but which is your Premier League team?
Cheggers
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This is a beautiful day, it is a new day...
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Relegation confirmed.
OH WELL.
OH WELL.
pasty
A different kind of pasty
Oh dear.
How sad.
Never mind.
How sad.
Never mind.
portlock seagull
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Well, I’m going to buck the trend and say it’s sad they’re down. Always a tall order given their comparative meagre resources. Rovers should be a solid L1 side, even Championship. They’ll be very disappointed to be back in L2 again. Poor Calders.
HalfaSeatOn
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Have to say that I really enjoyed watching Crawley when their L1 matches were on sky sports+. It was like watching a game of bagatelle, very entertaining, but in fairness they did play some terrific football at times.
OzMike
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Tripe and onions.
London Irish
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Crawley will be much better off in League 2 where their infrastructure and finances will allow them to win a few more games than they lose. If you really hated Crawley and their fans, you'd have wanted them to survive this season by their fingernails and face another season of constant batterings - it drains the life out of a fanbase these endless relegation battles where you know you really can't compete properly. They had the lowest wage bill in League 1 by a vast margin.
Crawley remain at the crossroads, historically they aren't any bigger club than the likes of Worthing or Hastings but they've dragged themselves up to compete at a ridiculously high level for them, even League 2 football remains a fairytale from where they were two decades ago when they were owned by a pair of proper crooks. But to go higher they need a new stadium and that requires a fair bit of cash, which they probably don't have. That said, they are stirring up a bit of support in north Sussex, their crowds have doubled in the past two seasons and not many fanbases can say they've set their record attendance total across a season while getting relegated. They could bounce back to League 1 next season but it would be wiser for them to grow their club infrastructure first before setting themselves up to hit another financial brick wall
Crawley remain at the crossroads, historically they aren't any bigger club than the likes of Worthing or Hastings but they've dragged themselves up to compete at a ridiculously high level for them, even League 2 football remains a fairytale from where they were two decades ago when they were owned by a pair of proper crooks. But to go higher they need a new stadium and that requires a fair bit of cash, which they probably don't have. That said, they are stirring up a bit of support in north Sussex, their crowds have doubled in the past two seasons and not many fanbases can say they've set their record attendance total across a season while getting relegated. They could bounce back to League 1 next season but it would be wiser for them to grow their club infrastructure first before setting themselves up to hit another financial brick wall
Jay Williams 
Fully agree. I find the dislike for Crawley on here absolutely astonishing, tbh. They are a small club but unlike Worthing, the Eastbourne clubs, Horsham and Lewes, they've had the temerity to live the dream and actually get into the league.
VAL1850
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Jay Williams
The thug transferred to MKD in January and looks like he's made zero appearances.. Equally funny....
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Didn't he go to MK while the manager who left Crawley for MK was still there, only for him to get sacked and return to Crawley in the meantime?
ROSM
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I am not against crawley per se. I was very very unhappy re incidents arouhs the game we played them in the cup.
So anti their manager, and some of their fans but not them as a club and what they've done.
I do believe they are also the only Sussex side to have won at wembley if you don't count the pub in Portslade that won the br pub cup a few years ago
So anti their manager, and some of their fans but not them as a club and what they've done.
I do believe they are also the only Sussex side to have won at wembley if you don't count the pub in Portslade that won the br pub cup a few years ago
nickbrighton
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I think a lot of people were either ambivalent or slightly supportive of Crawley before that cup game. What changed was that the horror tackle that took out O'Reily (sp?) for such a long time, wasn't just a bad tackle, it appeared to be the game plan all along, with lots of other tackles that could have seriously injured more players. It wasnt just a team of lower skill simply mis timing tackles it was like a full on assault at some points. The glib" £30 million down the drain "comments didnt help, and the fact that there were lots of posts on SM gloating about it has turned a significant number to dislike the club as a whole, rather than just a player or manager
There’s that. And then there’s the fact that Crawley is an unspeakable shite hole where you’re probably barren if you haven’t got four kids by the age of 20, that should be handed to Surrey at the first opportunity.
WHAT?
This is claptrap in my opinion. So much so that I don't know where to start. Let's start with the fact that too many on here hated them well before that cup game - many so embarrassingly ignorant that they blamed that football club for not letting us share their ground when we were homeless. Completely untrue. Then there's the game itself - one bad challenge from a lower league clogger. He mistimed a challenge with unfortunate consequences. There really weren't "loads " of other "horror" challenges, it was the fact that we ran rings around them that showed them up to be totally outclassed. That's what usually happens when a top half Prem team meets a team that ends up in league two at the end of the season
.And you're talking as if there were loads of Crawley fans all over SM winding us up about it - as if Crawley have even got loads of fans FFS. In fact, you're obviously so bothered about the well-being of O'Riley that you can't even spell his name right.