League Two side Crawley are on the brink of a £7m takeover by a Singapore consortium. (Mail)

Will they then be known as the "Cleepy Clawleys" ?

Corpaboy wrote:Will they then be known as the "Cleepy Clawleys" ?

Sore finger on chips

So what possesses a bunch of foreign businessmen to takeover a nondescript League two club? What do they expect in return?
WIERD ,ODD,IFFY.

Is the Crawley ground above an oil field or gold mine? Don’t know what else they’d be interested in.

lowandhard wrote:Is the Crawley ground above an oil field or gold mine? Don’t know what else they’d be interested in.

Additional runway for Gatwick. Could make playing future games there interesting.

They had several years under mystery foreign ownership around the time they were promoted to the League.

[Edit: Rather, mysterious overseas investment from a source the owners wouldn't identify publicly.]

Taunton Iron Cider wrote:

lowandhard wrote:Is the Crawley ground above an oil field or gold mine? Don’t know what else they’d be interested in.

Additional runway for Gatwick. Could make playing future games there interesting.

I was thinking of a link between the club and the airport, valuable land !