Crewe away. There’s three easy points for us then. What are you laughing for?

 

No time to stop and have a quick three verses of we are top of the league, the Imps are away at Gresty Road or whatever fancy name they’ve given it, following the win against Ipswich Town at home, which was rather more comprehensive than the Tractor Boys manager or their fans would care to admit.

It doesn’t seem five minutes to an old crock like me since Crewe were lording it in the championship on the back of a tie up with Liverpool that saw them benefit from some profitable loans but they’re back in league one now in a reminder that for small clubs, and I include us in that, the championship, while attainable, is a plate spinning exercise and unless that crockery keeps going round down you go, as Crewe did and the trick then becomes how to stop the slide, in the first instance before you even begin to plot your rise.

Crewe are doing it by way of a long term relationship with their manager which I’m sure we’d all agree with. City will be no different, the last managerial change being out of their hands. Most of us will hope Michael Appleton sees it that way but it won’t be long before were all getting in a panic the next time a juicy job comes up. Appleton wouldn’t be every chairman’s idea of the perfect managerial fit, hopefully. Appleton’s, and the clubs mantra now is catch them young, bring them on and sell them for as much as we can get. It won’t be to all of our liking and I can just imagine the furore if Lewis Montsma or Sean Roughan, say attracts a tempting bid in the future. We’ll all have to be ready for that. We have to be ready for those managerial jitters too and hope that the big apple can see when he’s on to a winner with City.

We’ll probably have to be ready for some changes to the team by the sound of it as injuries start to take their toll but with a young roster hopefully that won’t take the wind out of our sails too much as the season progresses.

City will be hoping for a similar result to last time at Crewe. I can just hear your murmurings of scepticism now. Oh ye of little faith!