Crawley Town Column: Fantastic night with the Red Army
Fantastic night under lights with the Red Army in Kent.
It feels like our season is finally starting to take off. Scott Lindsey’s Crawley came back not once but twice on Saturday evening to take a point at Gillingham in what was a very entertaining game and day out.
Due to the evening 5:30pm kick off that Sky Sports chose for this game, we all had a later start to our Saturday than usual. So a more respectable 12:30pm meet up for the train to Kent via London was arranged.
We started off with a few drinks at London Victoria Wetherspoons before catching the 14:10 fast service to Gillingham. From there it was on to an old haunt of ours and the delightfully named pub ‘The Fleur-De-Lis’ which is the official away fans pub. It’s a proper old school boozer, with literally sawdust on the floor when you walk in. But the landlord is very welcoming and the beer is cold and cheap at £4 a pint, so what’s not to like. From the pub we then ventured the short walk to the Priestfield Stadium, where we were housed in the Gordon Road stand at the side of the pitch, thankfully undercover. Having a roof above us allowed us fans to create a brilliant atmosphere, one the players really responded too.
What we witnessed was a hard working high intensity Crawley Town performance. One we can all be proud of, although the proudest man of all was gaffer Scott Lindsey who couldn’t hide is happiness at full time. In all honesty we deserved to win the game, with no fewer than 23 Reds attempts, hitting both post and crossbar. Only to be undone by a dubious penalty at best. But we didn’t crumble and came back well. If the game had carried on for a further ten minutes we would have returned to West Sussex with all three points for sure. In the end we had to settle for one. But that’s now three league games unbeaten, with Accrington Stanley the visitors to the Broadfield Stadium this weekend, you’d like to think we’ll keep this run going.
To everyone that travelled to Gillingham on Saturday evening, what a credit you are to this amazing football club. Let’s keep these fantastic travelling numbers up for the rest of the season!
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