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After the freezing weather did its best to distort the fixture list and pile up the midweek fixtures for February and March, it was back to league duty for Crewe after ten days off since they overcame Bradford to reach the northern area final of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy. The 1-1 draw at Leyton Orient on [...]

The Johnstone’s Paint Trophy has given Crewe a pleasant side-track to a promising return to League One football this season and on Tuesday night, the lower league competition saw Gresty Road stage the northern section semi-final with Bradford City. The Bantams sit just outside the play-off places in League Two and have beaten Wigan, Arsenal and [...]

After the fruitful festive period in which Crewe capped off a superb 2012 with six points from a possible nine to move within 3 points of the playoffs in League One, the first Saturday evening of the new year became a time to take stock and reflect on the early season prophecies that had Crewe cast [...]

After the glory of the 1-3 win at Preston, there would have sparked a flicker of hope amongst some elements of Crewe support that the dramatic rise under the eye of Steve Davis would not plateau just yet and that a charge on the League One play-offs may not be restricted to just a pipe-dream. There [...]

After contrasting fortunes in the two domestic cup competitions of last week, from elimination in the FA Cup second round to progression to the area semi-finals of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy, Crewe went back to league duty on Saturday. It would have been a welcome return with a run of just two defeats in nine stretching [...]

It was much easier this time, no falling behind, no need for a storming comeback or a stirring half-time team talk, only a second half brace from Lauri Dalla Valle was needed to earn Crewe a comfortable three points against Crawley at Gresty Road on Saturday. After losing at Shrewsbury and gaining an unexpected point away [...]

The entertaining comeback against Colchester as of a week ago meant Crewe made the short journey to Shrewsbury full of optimism that the corner had been turned in the search for the elusive consistency that had undermined the season so far. The Colchester victory made it 2 wins out of 2 and over 1,000 fans who [...]

On 10th November 2011, Steve Davis was appointed Crewe Alexandra manager with the side 18th in the league and staring non-league football in the eye after a dreadful 0-3 home defeat to Torquay. After being assistant to Dario Gradi for just under two years, it was time for the long-serving boss to step aside and allow [...]

After the disappointing home defeat to Yeovil a week ago, few Crewe fans would have subscribed to the wholesome feeling of optimism that has illustrated Steve Davis’ reign so far, an era that is fast approaching its one year anniversary. With injuries, players struggling for form and questions about the oversight on loan signings, it was [...]

As Steve Davis approaches the anniversary of his first year in charge of Crewe Alexandra, the 47 year old manager will sit down in front of an audience of fans this coming Friday to answer questions in a rather refreshing interaction between supporters and management. Likely to be the agenda will be the future of the [...]

After failing to take the optimism generated by the win over Hartlepool down to the south coast where Crewe saw a heartless surrender to Portsmouth by way of another 2 early goals, a commodity that had marred defeat to MK Dons, even the Hartlepool win before it occurred again at Walsall to suggest quick-fire lapses were [...]

Saturday’s tough trip to MK Dons was made amongst a rhetoric of fearlessness and positivity, of how a young Crewe side would not be intimidated by the imposing Stadium;MK and the promotion chasing team that inhabits it. Partnered with the Friday loan capture of Colchester midfielder  Andy Bond to vitally boost numbers and one would have [...]

It took a while to recalculate the fallout from Saturday’s draw with Leyton Orient and to draw a degree of perspective from what was a strange game at Gresty Road in which neither side could be too unhappy with a stalemate, Crewe’s fourth in a row to keep the post-Brentford massacre unbeaten run, now at 5, [...]

Every little helps is the tag-line for one of the World’s biggest supermarket chains, but it is also forming a double-living as the motto for Crewe Alexandra’s odyssey into League One, as a relatively young side continue to show the resilience and steel needed to earn a decent crust in a tough league. “There are no [...]

One of the most prevalent feelings upon leaving Gresty Road on Saturday afternoon was one of satisfaction that lessons have been learned, as was so vitally necessary, from the opening of the season and the startlingly ramshackle defence that hit a watershed moment away at Brentford. No league goals have been shipped since that 5-1 defeat [...]

It was once again time for realism to rear its head at Gresty Road on Friday. Crewe Alexandra played its role as a selling club in the competitive business world that is professional football. Barely three months after Nick Powell underwent his own multi-million pound move to the promised land of the Premier League, club captain [...]

The step up from League Two to League One is tough, we have gathered that by now, as Crawley, Swindon and Shrewsbury slowly adapt to the higher standard of opposition. However it is Crewe who have had the sharpest growing pains with three defeats out of 5 games played piercing any bubble of optimism that may [...]

So that is what it is like to lose then? After 6 months of wondering since a trip to Southend on February 18 th, Crewe fans finally experienced once more that empty, helpless frustration that floods through the system after a defeat. 20 matches without loss and Notts County, in the opening game of the two clubs’ [...]

In a far cry from the jubilation of Wembley back in May, competitive football was back with Crewe Alexandra last Saturday in the unfamiliar setting of a pre-season League Cup fixture under the sun at Gresty Road. If an element of support were unsure of how the home side would play unpredictable Hartlepool, an opposition that [...]

With the 19 match unbeaten run left on a cliff hanger by the spectacular day at Wembley in late May, the two-month lull between seasons will be characterised by the eagerness of Crewe fans waiting desperately to try their newly resilient hand at the stronger proposition of League One. The gap from the 2-0 win over Cheltenham [...]