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Modern Era crammed into One Club - Crawley Town

Does any football team in the UK come to mind when you say the words "chaotic"? - no, it's not Manchester United. We're talking about a certain club down in League 2.


People can talk about clubs making strides to survive in the "data-driven age" we live in currently. But Crawley Town took more steps into this than any other traditional-sounding team in the FL could ever do.


At first glance, you wouldn't think a team named "Crawley Town" is an innovative team always looking to expand their fanbase in Europe, oh no, that sort of title belongs to teams in the top flight with flashy reputations.


Well, Crawley Town are the same team that attempted to recruit fans from all over the globe whilst they are still in League 2.


WAGMI United are a group of crypto investors who bought the club in hopes of changing things around and implementing new tech, new ideas and new ambitions into the club and their supporters.



Since then, plans such as giving fans exclusive benefits as well as a huge say in what direction the club is going to, attempting to give power to the passion that the players hear every game.


The signing of EFL League 2 top goalscorer in 2022m Dom Telford, spearheaded one of WAGMI's statements to the rest of the league and their own fans.



The slogan on their website is literally "Together, we will take Crawley Town to the Premier League."


At first, it sounds like someone's plans to take their Football Manager save by storm, but this is a very real statement. A project planned out.


As the self-proclaimed "The Internet's Team" it further pushes our claim that the club is well into trying to embrace this "information age" our world is flirting with.


Since it has been a year since the WAGMI consortium took charge of this club, how well has the club fared?


Six managers, departures of players with little to no reason behind them, and an ambition to take the club to the promised land of the Premier League...


Perhaps all those growing pains could be part and parcel of a long-term plan put in place. Sometimes these plans can be catastrophic, echoing Anzhi Makhachkala's infamous failure of attempting to join the European Elite back in 2011, but now lying in ruin as the club is considered dissolved.


Questions still arise on what WAGMI will do in the future, there is not only uncertainty, but also excitement, anticipation, and something a little different to what the fans of other teams in the EFL have to support.


Yet the club still lies in League Two, although fourth at the time of writing - having just beat Grimsby Town on their own home ground, with a tightly knit 3-2. There is still plenty of time, and Rome wasn't built in a day.





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