Although The Crabs have improved since the ‘that day’ that they fielded nine players in Wimbledon, John Martin perhaps has learnt that signing 18 players was somehow not enough.

This week’s game saw two of the Southern Sunday Divison 3’s promotion favourites go head to head in what proved to be a tight and hotly contested affair.

A stitch in time saves nine, so they say, but nothing could save the nine man Sporting Crabs as they struggled to withstand Wimbledon Town’s second half pressure. The saying itself is rather apt too as a contingency plan could have helped patch up a squad that seems to be receiving it’s fair share of stitches…