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Retro Red Devils 22 – Bumper Edition for 3rd Visit to Wembley & Our Journey So Far!!

For the last time – honest! It’s my personal opinion that I have just witnessed the best two Red Devils performances I have watched in 65-odd years as a Crawley fan, and to see our team perform like that on live TV as well (how many others, like me, got home on...
Retro Red Devils – Charlton & Newport

Retro Red Devils – Charlton & Newport

My previous article ended with us in the 1970s and the start of our slow decline. Failing finances, poor results and equally poor support made for a fairly depressing decade of Southern League football at Town Meadow, with just the odd bright spot standing out in my...

Retro Red Devils – Town Meadow

Retro Red Devils – Town Meadow

I ended my first RRD looking at a programme from the first league game at our new ground at Town Meadow in 1949, and before I move on to other topics in future articles, I thought I should carry on where we left off and revisit the early years at Town Meadow through a...

Retro Red Devils – A new beginning!

Retro Red Devils – A new beginning!

It seems strange to be writing a retrospective article and launching it on this very much 21st-century medium of the internet! However, the football club’s rather sad decision to scrap matchday programmes (whether physical or digital) has led to a massive outpouring...