Thoughts of a lifelong fan: Crawley Town must go for broke against Salford City on final day

In the lunchtime game MK Dons, with ex-Red Devil Liam Kelly running the show, beat Tranmere by 3-0 which you would have thought would have given Crawley Town a boost prior to the game away to Accrington Stanley.

However, after just nine minutes with Crawley playing well, Newport County took the lead against Oldham and we were down to 22nd and then it got even worse, when despite the good start, Accrington took the lead.

What a day of real football, as Oldham equalised in the 29th minute, Barrow went one down to Cambridge United in the 34th minute followed by Oldham taking the lead against Newport in the 35th minute and then...... Ooooooosh, Forster scores an equaliser for the Red Devils and the whole of Homethorne House in Oak Road, Southgate knows it.

Still a long way to go though as Oldham go down to ten men when Mike Fondop was dismissed for violent conduct and Harrogate took the lead away to Walsall just before the half time whistle.

Half time basement league table:

P GD Pts

20 Tranmere 45 -25 40

21 Crawley 44.5 -24 39

22 Harrogate 44.5 -29 39

23 Newport 44.5 -32 37

24 Barrow 44.5 -30 36

Second half starts.

Then devastatingly, Stanley took the lead in the 50th minute and we were down to 22nd on 38 points and Newport had equalised and sat on 38 points just six goals worse off than us.

Harrogate then went two up at Walsall and just as I was beginning to get down hearted, Taylor Richards and Ryan Loft came on for Max Anderson and Tobi Adeyemo and with his first touch, Richards equalised.. Could we go on to win?

Six minutes later, however, Accy scored again, and yet another glorious moment was required to give us any sort of chance to stay up.

At this point I decided to wait until the end of the game to write anymore.

As our game ended, only Harrogate out of the bottom five clubs had picked up a victory and we had just one glorious moment after 71 minutes when Jay Williams smashed home our third equaliser of the afternoon, which is how our game ended, 3-3. However, at Newport an amazing 16 minutes of added on time had been shown, and in the 14th minute of it Newport were awarded a penalty, which Bobby Kamwa had saved by Donaghy in the Oldham goal. Unfortunately, in the 19th minute of added on time Kamwa scored the winner, which left the bottom five looking like this.

Full time basement league table

P GD Pts

20 Tranmere 45 -25 40

21 Newport 45 -30 40

22 Crawley 45 -24 39

23 Harrogate 45 -28 39

24 Barrow 44.5 -33 36

We must go for broke next week against Salford City, Noli Cedere, Noli Semper Cedere. We know what we must do.