To be fair to Matty H - he was one our best players out there today! He tried his best but was too often manhandled by their two centre backs - at least he tried! He had two players marking him because Crawley knew that our game play flows through him - take him out and voila! His strike (I say that with liberty!) partner offered very little threat and beat himself more often than not!
We never got our own game going at any stage and Crawley bossed it from the start (I left after the 3rd goal went in) so I cant comment on anything after that time. Up until then I thought Crawley were a horrible team that played a terrible brand of football. Very hard in your face, niggley time wasting, aggressive and the ref played right into their hands. People reading this will say I am biased and I suppose I am, but at no stage of the game I watched today did the ref give us anything. Harrold was manhandled every time he went for the ball. When they lost the ball they were all arms and legs and pushing and shoving. They are a tall side and most of the time direct - whooosh - into the channels, and their right back has an exorcet throw-in which they used to great length.
At the start of the day all I wished for was a good game of football and I would/could accept our defeat had we been played off the park by a decent footballing team, this however was not the case. What football they played we allowed them too, and they never allowed us to play at all (today it looked like we couldn't play even if they had let us!). So Crawley I would like to say well played but I don't like your style, manager or poxy little ground ... hopefully your money bags men will pull the plug soon and you can go back to where you came from - lots of love - a very dissheartened frustrated Gashead!