FOOTBALL LEAGUE FOCUS: Basket-case Crawley Town are flapping against the tide and are in grave danger of sinking, no one can begrudge Gillingham some joy and Morecambe's Derek Adams is manager of the month

As the Football League returned from its World Cup hiatus last month, Sportsmail ran a feature discussing the promotion and relegation fights in each division.

'Unlike previous years, League Two does not have a basket-case club,' it read. It's time to revise that theory. Welcome to the band of basket cases, Crawley Town.

Some more company for fans of Macclesfield, Southend, Oldham, Bury and Scunthorpe. We know the script: negligent decisions by a charlatan owner and, in course, a team ill-equipped to stay in the Football League.

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