Having ranted in previous articles about the growing number of late match postponements in the last couple of years, I was made aware of the plight of Taunton Town, who have had multiple postponements at their Wordsworth Drive ground this season. The said ground has...
My last Retro Red Devils article featured my rant on “soft” postponements of matches in these current, more cossetted times. Needless to say, it was followed by our match against Barrow being called off a day early due to a waterlogged pitch. There had been alot of...
I read the Barrow manager’s views on their postponement last Saturday, when the game against Bradford was called off just prior to kick-off as one small area of the pitch was not allowing the ball to bounce as it should. My personal opinion is that it is ridiculous,...
No, not the crisis of 2023 but 50 years earlier in the 1973/74 season where, by the end of February 1974, we were rooted at the bottom of the Southern League South Division having not won a game since 1st December 1973. That December day we had a surprise 1-0 home win...
In the last few days of our exhibition at Crawley Museum, I bumped into a couple of people who had found relatives of theirs amongst the hundreds of photos on show – pictures they certainly weren’t expecting to see. Strangely, both of these visitors’ relatives played...
No, I am not referring to the present day (but who knows, after that brilliant win at Bradford!) but a season I have written about several times in the past: 1967-68, our fifth season in the Southern League. I was recently loaned some old scrapbooks by ex-player Vic...
It doesn’t seem to matter which “Dons” we play at the moment, we can’t get a result. After a very poor first half against the AFC version, we did the opposite in the first half of the MK version, but just cannot convert the chances we make. It’s a story told often...
By “The Dons” I mean the original team of that name, who played at the old Plough Lane ground and who we would first meet in their first season in the Southern League Division One in 1964/65 after they transferred from the Isthmian League that close season. Wimbledon...
Hopefully most readers will have seen adverts, Facebook posts or even the BBC radio or TV pieces promoting the Crawley Town FC exhibition which is now open at Crawley Museum , on the corner of the Boulevard and High Street in the building known as The Tree. It’s open...
After booking a weekend trip for the match at Morecambe only for it to be postponed rather late in the day due to International U21 commitments for our opponents (really!), I felt on safer ground booking an extended trip to the southern Lake District for the Barrow...