00:00 (crowd noise)
00:10 As you enter the exhibition, you've got the interested parties of the club really.
00:17 You've got teenage coaches over on this side, and you notice the signs that they use on the coaches going up to Old Trafford.
00:27 We've got a fancied coach, a notorious coach and a bulldozer coach, and there was other coaches in those days as well.
00:33 This is the DSA, Disabled Support Association, their log display.
00:38 And on this side we've got CTFC, SA, Supporters Alliance, with their posters telling you what they do.
00:45 And now that they've got representation on the board with Sam Jordan, he should be here tonight.
00:50 Yep.
00:51 The one and only Sergio Antones' shirt.
00:54 Is that a particular game or is that...?
00:57 I think that's the one. It wouldn't have been the one from Derby County because it's a league shirt.
01:02 Yeah, from that season.
01:04 From the season after, yeah.
01:06 And then you come here, this is Mick Fox's work of art over here.
01:10 This shows wherever Crawley have played in Crawley.
01:14 You see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 pitches.
01:20 Wow.
01:21 You know, and what do the pink ones signify?
01:23 The pink ones signify places that we've used as HQs.
01:29 Or this little one here is an old lady's house that they used as changing.
01:34 Oh really?
01:35 You can walk over to the entrance.
01:37 Oh wow, incredible.
01:39 Behind the entrance is Cinnabar, which is now Turtle Bay.
01:42 Yes.
01:43 And then you've got the Touth Meadow.
01:51 So that was 51 years, no, 41 years they were there.
01:56 Yeah.
01:57 Yeah.
01:58 It looks like they're going for a one man and a dog there, doesn't it?
02:02 That's the building there and that's the Town Mead houses in the background.
02:06 Yeah. Oh wow, incredible.
02:12 Some old players there in the red and white quartered shirts that we used to wear.
02:18 And we also wore red and white stripes, which we see a lot of.
02:21 Right, yeah.
02:23 And you come on to Town Mead a bit higher up.
02:27 Yeah.
02:29 They have the worst toilets in the league, I think we had that.
02:33 And that sign there is in that cupboard over there.
02:40 Oh wow.
02:41 Because I got in there the day after they closed it and nicked it.
02:46 You took possession of it, shall we say.
02:49 This was the old stand, it was made, that was the boardroom.
02:55 Right.
02:56 And you had to climb up to that, not via the ladder, there was a staircase at the back.
03:01 Incredible, and then a Broadfield Stadium.
03:03 Just as we got the stadium looking reasonably, we moved.
03:08 Yeah.
03:09 Which is a good job they did.
03:12 And you come on to this one, Crawley FC 1890s to 1953.
03:18 The one and only George Banks.
03:21 Yes, we featured him in the paper, didn't we?
03:23 Did we feature him in the paper at some point?
03:26 I can't remember.
03:27 I see them again there.
03:29 This looks like it's been photoshopped, that.
03:31 It does, doesn't it?
03:32 It couldn't have been.
03:33 It couldn't have been, but it does, yeah, absolutely.
03:35 Yeah, and is that all the team shots from over the years?
03:38 These are team shots throughout the years, yeah.
03:41 Wow.
03:42 And that's the latest one.
03:49 Yeah.
03:50 Incredible.
03:53 And then these are the pits throughout the years.
03:57 Which one's your favourite?
03:59 Have you got a favourite?
04:01 I must admit, I like it basically red, a bit boring.
04:04 Yeah.
04:05 I think that was a nice one, with the black.
04:08 With the black, yeah.
04:10 That one was a good one as well.
04:13 I think that was the one that Andy Riley used to wear.
04:18 Yeah.
04:19 Remember Andy Riley?
04:20 Yes, I do, yeah.
04:21 He took the penalties for that.
04:23 And then this bit here is other related teams,
04:26 because although we're Crawley Town,
04:28 we were Crawley SC before that,
04:31 and we went out of existence for three years, was it, Mick?
04:34 Yeah, but some of these were...
04:37 These are precursors, like the Crawley comrades came from the war
04:42 and then they went to the Rangers and then they packed up and became Crawley.
04:47 And they all sort of fell apart just before the Second World War
04:51 and then re-emerged as Crawley FC.
04:54 But quite often it seemed to me that they used to share players.
04:58 Right, OK.
04:59 And there was a Wednesday team that used to share players as well, so...
05:03 Yeah.
05:05 The founding fathers.
05:07 All the neat bits are Steve's.
05:10 All the ones with the handwritten captions in mind that you can't read very well.
05:14 This is what we've published in The Observer.
05:19 Yeah, yes.
05:20 Nice spread down there, Steve.
05:24 It looks good, doesn't it?
05:26 We've got bits of the Denman up there.
05:29 Then it goes into the New Town, which is Stan Malcolm.
05:32 Which finishes up there.
05:35 And then the Bournemouth years.
05:37 We were around in that space, so we were able to leave this one to section on Bain.
05:43 Yeah, we ran stuff on that, didn't we, in that paper?
05:46 The legends and characters.
05:48 These legends, which I think they were from Molly Sempik there.
05:51 They were.
05:52 Yeah.
05:53 Gord Jennings.
05:54 I put that little thing in there.
05:56 Photographed cropped to avoid showing the Tesco carrier.
06:00 He doesn't like Brian.
06:02 [Laughter]
06:04 I'm not the only one.
06:06 I was calling this lot legends, but in the end I knew Steve's was that.
06:12 So it was more, I remember them.
06:15 It's a memory board for people who come and say, "Oh, yeah, I remember."
06:18 It's fascinating, isn't it?
06:20 We've still got Roy up there in a crawly shirt this time.
06:23 But it's not just players.
06:25 38 pages.
06:27 Incredible.
06:29 Don't get that very often, do you think?
06:31 Have you ever hit harder?
06:32 No, never did.
06:33 Just slid it into the corner.
06:35 Any time.
06:37 Like clockwork.
06:38 He was the only painting type I could actually watch.
06:41 [Laughter]
06:43 Also, we've got other sort of people, Fred Pitts behind the scenes, and Jim.
06:48 So it's not just players.
06:50 Not just players, yeah.
06:52 Bruce and Steve Evans together there.
06:54 Of course.
06:55 [Indistinct conversation]
07:03 Good to see a crawly observer front page there, lovely.
07:05 There's a few of them.
07:06 Yeah, absolutely.
07:07 My press cutting library got quite summoned.
07:11 Can I interrupt, Steve?
07:12 We have your friends from Norfolk.
07:14 Hello.
07:15 [Laughter]
07:17 That's my album over there.
07:19 That was presented to me by my kids on my 60th birthday.
07:24 Oh, okay.
07:25 Oh, lovely.
07:26 Basically the promotion series.
07:29 Yeah.
07:30 Man United trip and all that sort of stuff.
07:33 Oh, cool.
07:34 What have we got?
07:36 Is this like VIX supporters?
07:39 They're trying to pick out the supporters in the background.
07:44 And then that's Graham Longley.
07:46 Do you want Graham Longley?
07:47 No, don't.
07:48 Alan Harper.
07:49 Oh, yeah.
07:50 Malcolm Harper, his brother.
07:52 [Indistinct conversation]
08:04 What's in this one here?
08:06 Is this, there's programmes and?
08:09 Yeah, flats and football flats.
08:11 Oh, right.
08:12 United reviews and signed photographs.
08:17 That was presented to us by three British.
08:19 Oh, nice.
08:20 Yeah.
08:21 Oh, wow.
08:22 And a little trophy cabinet.
08:28 This is a trophy cabinet.
08:30 And that thing down there, that is a wedge, wedge.
08:32 Yeah.
08:33 For thousands of pounds.
08:35 The first time I collected it from the football,
08:38 for the sports exhibition we had two seasons ago,
08:41 I had a broken knee.
08:43 Oh.
08:44 So I did a repair shop on it.
08:46 Yeah.
08:47 I did the lady on repair shop, I think that's exactly right.
08:50 Yeah.
08:51 Oh, wow.
08:52 But we got, it seems like we weren't allowed to keep trophies.
08:58 So that's remembering that we won the Dr. Martens League.
09:03 Yeah.
09:04 Because the Dr. Martens trophy is that big wooden shield.
09:08 Yeah.
09:09 Which has got Tom Watson on it.
09:11 Oh, of course, yeah.
09:12 Oh, wow.
09:13 We got the Leeds United ball, but someone's put the wrong date on it.
09:19 [Laughter]
09:22 Oh, amazing.
09:26 And a Bobby Charlton shirt.
09:30 That was presented by Bobby Charlton.
09:33 Yeah.
09:34 And there are pictures of Bobby Charlton.
09:37 [Indistinct conversation]
09:46 Steve, where are the pictures of Bobby Charlton?
09:48 Sorry?
09:49 Where are the pictures?
09:50 Where are the pictures of Bobby Charlton?
09:52 Bobby Charlton's isn't there.
09:55 Oh, yeah, handing over the little trophy in there, he has a Leeds turn ball.
10:00 Oh, wow.
10:01 And Silke was going to send me one of Bobby Charlton's.
10:05 [Indistinct conversation]
10:07 You got the cogs over there.
10:08 Yeah, the cogs up there.
10:09 Ben, take a picture around the back as well, it's got Carol on around the back.
10:13 She's hidden herself around the back.
10:15 [Laughter]
10:16 There she is, Dame Carol.
10:19 Yeah, Dame Carol.
10:21 And the club, very bravely, has given the service as well.
10:25 Oh, okay.
10:26 They were from the tunnel.
10:28 Yeah.
10:29 But they had rebranded the tunnel.
10:31 Yeah.
10:32 [Indistinct conversation]
10:35 Trips away, Scottish expeditions, hearts.
10:40 Do you know who were unbeaten in Scotland?
10:42 Four games.
10:43 Unbeaten in Scotland?
10:44 Yeah.
10:45 Four games, wow, there you go.
10:46 You want to move to the--
10:47 [Indistinct conversation]
10:52 Right, okay.
10:53 [Laughter]
10:54 [Indistinct conversation]
11:00 The legends.
11:01 The legends.
11:02 And this one here, keep them turned around, keep them turned around.
11:07 That shows every one of our matches in the promotion season, first one.
11:12 And if you notice, Newport County, we lost 2-3 at home.
11:18 And from then, undefeated apart from Dartford, the trophy, and Man United in the FA Cup.
11:26 Wow, incredible.
11:27 Yeah.
11:28 Absolutely, the teams you play in as well, Wrexham, you're obviously back now,
11:32 playing them, Luton Town.
11:34 Yeah.
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