Steve Herbert: Crawley Town have been down this road before, but let's get behind Colin Kazim-Richards
Crawley Town appoint managerial novice to save our football league status.
Football journey man Colin Kazim-Richards, a player with more clubs than tiger woods, but with zero managerial experience was not exactly the announcement we’d expected from our ownership.
The fact they have put their trust in a guy who has never managed a team before, let alone saved one from relegation is most bizarre. The frenzy on social media when the announcement was being rumoured had most Reds social platforms in absolute meltdown.
The very fact we have been down this road before in disastrous consequences with Kevin Betsy should be enough to of put the club off another novice appointment. Like Betsy, Kazim-Richards joins us after coaching a few youth teams at Arsenal.
I appreciate these guys need to get a break somewhere and an opportunity to manage, but surely you don’t do it when a club is bang in trouble with seven games to go. It feels like a massive gamble, one that now has to pay off if we are to retain our football league membership.
Obviously as a fan base we will get behind Colin and hope he succeeds, as what else is there to do. In reality the players should be able to step up now and save both themselves and the club from the drop. After all it’s the players that have got themselves in this mess in the first place.
Good luck to Colin Kazim-Richards on Saturday at home to Gillingham where he can expect a packed Broadfield Stadium to get behind his new players from the off!