[Football] League Two Play-Off Final: Crawley Town vs Crewe Alexandra (Sunday, 13:00)

[portlock seagull]

Yep, well done Crawley. Very good performance today and well deserved. League 1 is a terrific accomplishment.

 

[tigertim68]

Bit random that - I witter on about socialism all the time on here and am probably one of the biggest defenders of Crawley, snobbery is more associated with posh Tories

Nope to many champagne socialists on here

 

[London Irish]

Nope to many champagne socialists on here

If you mean there are too many well-off people with concerns about social justice, that's a good thing. When did being a selfish git become admirable

 

[London Irish]

Crawley are unlike any other League 2 team I've ever seen. Credit to them. They play some great football.

Their fans moan too when it is passed around the back

But yes Lindsey believes in really progressive football so great to see it being rewarded. If they kept that team together, then it will do fine in League 1. The problem is it's mostly shorter term contracts at that level - and Crawley's success puts those players in a shop window for much bigger wealthier clubs in League 1 (and one or two Crawley players could easily fit in the Champ as well). So they'll have to find replacements for their star players before too long or maybe sooner - and we know how painful that is.

When the Wagmi owners too over two years ago, they were panned by Crawley fans for their American obsession with moneyball data for recruitment (along with many other things, such as booting out a racist) but this good article by Brian Owen last week shows how they were vindicated https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/24...lains-crawley-town-recruitment-ahead-wembley/

And the funny thing about Lindsey is he looks so much like a Dyche type, his experience is Kent football Gillingham Chatham etc yet you see a version of De Zerbi ball from him, goalie dragging on the press to create space elsewhere etc. Football is being revolutionised at all levels of the game