Messy game, Crawley were certainly better organised, and for the most part had more pace. Not sure if Connolly was persistently fouled, or was persistently looking for a foul, either way he wasn't getting them, pretty sure the first time he went down it was more of him than the challenge.
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Sometimes people make hasty predictions for the season ahead, based on a pre season friendly, and get it horribly wrong. They end up eating their big Ritchie Blackmore hat.