Academy 2-2 Crewe Alexandra
Diesel, Diesel
By Since66
August 21 2008
You don't mess with the Railwaymen of Crewe or in this case the Railwaykids. Crewe travelled to Cobham this afternoon to take on The Academy and despite being 2-0 up, came away with a 2-2 draw in the U18s first League game of the season. Crewe Alexandra has always been the 'butt' of people's jokes!!!
Immortalized a few years ago on Soccer AM - when you had heads behind a sofa jumping up - and chanting 'diesel' everytime the name of Crewe was mentioned. Crewe are the pivotal club in British football churning out youngsters through their magnificent Academy structure under the watchful, caring eye of Technical Director Dario Gradi, who once upon a time was a member of the Chelsea staff way back in the 80's. Gradi became the longest serving manager in British football serving Crewe from 1983 until July 1st 2007. Back to this afternoon and Academy coach Paul Clement said, "It was a good comeback but it is disappointing to go two-nil down. It was the first game of the season and we wanted to win and get a good start in the League to improve on out position from last year. "Although we did finish strong and even had a chance to win it at the death, overall it was not a performance we can be too pleased with. "The start of the first half and in the second we were in control, but we ended up chasing the game after going two-nil down, because of our mistakes, but once we started attacking they couldn't handle us." Daniel Philliskirk who has been at Chelsea for a year after signing from Oldham Athletic was handed the Captain's armband. Chelsea's scorers were Jacopo Sala and Ben Gordon. Crewe's scorers were Danny Shelley and Matt Freeman (thanks to Alex9). Chelsea Team: Heimann, Ahmed, Philliskirk (c), Saville, Gordon, Taiwo, Hibbert (Hayden 45mins), Woods, Sala, Borini, Tabor
As you say, Crewe have always had a good youth set up, so maybe coming back from 0-2 aint too bad.
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"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they don’t like it." P Kenyon.
