Yes, yes it is. Only 8 miles. However, I have no real affinity with Crawley as I don't live there. If I did live in Crawley, I would go. As it is, I just wish them well as my soon-to-be nearest league club.Well Reigate is quite near Crawley
Yes, yes it is. Only 8 miles. However, I have no real affinity with Crawley as I don't live there. If I did live in Crawley, I would go. As it is, I just wish them well as my soon-to-be nearest league club.Well Reigate is quite near Crawley
Just ignore some of the fuckwits on here. That post from supaseagull was the post of a f***ing moron, it was so factually incorrect.
All this guff about them eating into our fanbase. For fucks sake, we've had a clear run of a county with nearly 2m people for 100 years and made a pigs ear of it. I can't believe anyone can begrudge Crawley their day in the sun. If I lived in Crawley, I'd probably go to OT too.
It's easy to sneer at Crawley's chavs from Brighton (so overpriced that you have to work 90 mins away in London to pay the mortgage) or any number of other dreary seaside "resorts" with f*** all to be proud of. Crawley has chavs, but it also has jobs, and the ugly 60s buildings are being replaced because things actually tend to get built in Crawley without the nimbys holding the town to randsom. Of course I know this because I actually GO to Crawley from time to time. You'll find that too many sneering gimps on here haven't actually been there for over a decade - just ignore them.Just fucks me off that some low life probably unemployed father of 4 (different mums) with nothing better to do than sit on NSC all day steortypes crawley and probably 80% of its residents......i bet if they got up off there sofa bed, walked to there shopping parade and brought a paper, the chances and I would lay most of my money on it is that the person selling the paper, is A not white and B Not from Brighton. tossers
All this guff about them eating into our fanbase. For fucks sake, we've had a clear run of a county with nearly 2m people for 100 years and made a pigs ear of it. I can't believe anyone can begrudge Crawley their day in the sun. If I lived in Crawley, I'd probably go to OT too.
Yes, hard to argue with that. Crawley doesn't seem to be nearly so reactionary as Brighton: they're not so terrified of cars or new buildings as a lot of the tossers (both in and out of the Council) here are. I too go to Crawley a fair amount as we have friends there (if Maidenbower counts as Crawley) and we walk the dogs in Tilgate Park which is a smashing place.It's easy to sneer at Crawley's chavs from Brighton (so overpriced that you have to work 90 mins away in London to pay the mortgage) or any number of other dreary seaside "resorts" with f*** all to be proud of. Crawley has chavs, but it also has jobs, and the ugly 60s buildings are being replaced because things actually tend to get built in Crawley without the nimbys holding the town to randsom. Of course I know this because I actually GO to Crawley from time to time. You'll find that too many sneering gimps on here haven't actually been there for over a decade - just ignore them.
I'll be supporting Sussex
The comments section in The Guardian today give an insight as to how most football fans feel about 'little' Crawley Town. It's nothing to do with them being local, I just hate them.
Having had the great misfortune to visit the Broadfield stadium last weekend, I hope Manchester United stick 7 or 8 past Crawley.
Horrible team, horrible manager, horrible fans. If they do bring 9,000 to Old Trafford, it will be 8,963 more than they brought a similar distance up to Wrexham for a crucial BSP match.
Good luck to Orient though
Oh, and I wouldn't describe Crawley as blue chip stock, more the Enron of the BSP.
Would love to be playing a proper non league club. Hope we twat these clowns.
Has there ever been a more loathed underdog than Crawley?
Crawley's mysterious unknown backers and their convicted tax fraudster manager are about as far from the magic of the cup as you could possibly get.
They have recruited some excellent (and expensive) mercenary footballers while they still have this funding and will give Man United's distracted prima donnas a hell of a fright.
It's just one more nail in the coffin of what was once a unique and unparalleled competition though.
Guardian...your having a laugh, thats means your intelligent and I am not sure thats right based on some of the tosh you write........
....and what "tosh" would that be? I'm sorry, but I fail to see any "romance" in this particular "FA Cup fairytale".
Oh, and it's "you're" not "your".
I'll be supporting Brighton.
FFS! No it isn't!