CRAWLEY TOWN SUCCEED IN PROJECT PROMOTION

FOR Crawley Town midfielder Ben Smith, the summer of 2010 began with a rather awkward request.
“I was due a bit of a signing-on fee and I hadn’t got it,” said Smith, who had joined the Red Devils from Hereford United 12 months earlier.
“And I vividly remember calling the manager, Steve Evans. I was tiptoeing around, going ‘Look, I know it’s pre-season and money is always tight but when is it coming?’
“He just started laughing and said ‘Money tight? What are you on about?’ He told me we&r...