Football Season Review

Crewe are coming from a season that started exactly the same way as their previous two campaigns, as they sold some of their best players in the summer without properly replacing them and looked pretty much like no-hopers in the early stages of the campaign. However, unlike in the previous two seasons, there were no quality loan signings that joined and no remarkable turnaround, as the Alex had their relegation confirmed with as many as five games left to play and never really looked capable of beating the drop. One could say that the final nail in their coffin came as early as January, when they sold talented winger Ryan Colclough to Wigan, but they spent pretty much the entirety of the season inside the bottom four and it is hard to believe that Colclough staying would have resulted in Crewe closing the 16-point gap that was present between themselves and safety at the end of the season. Steve Davis has been allowed to keep his job despite the relegation and that hardly comes as a surprise to anyone truly familiar with the club, as Davis has produced excellent results with very limited resources, and the overall stance of the club seems to be that he cannot really be blamed for the drop, given the extremely limited resources that he has had to deal with for years. Crewe were always a club that heavily relied on its youth system, and we should not expect the Alex to be too active on the market during the summer and bring in several new players. Given that, for the first time in at least five years, they currently seem to have no youth prospects of extraordinary quality, so it might be a while before we see them in the third tier again.

Player of the Season: Bradden Inman