The KKK Took My Baby Away

Wycombe 2 Crewe 0
Eeh, these bank holidays and extra days off have thrown me right out. Should really have done this on Monday evening but was still catching up with stuff from the weekend. And the last two days I've been catching up with jobs around the house.
Anyway, I did  find time to listen to this game on the radio. Sounded like it was a perfect summation of Crewe's season, to be honest. Plenty of chances before Wycombe took the lead shortly before half-time, via the head of Scott Rendell. Crewe then won a fortuitous penalty which Clayton Donaldson saw saved well by the keeper. Almost immediately, Wycombe won a dubious penalty of their own, which Rendell put away confidently. Half-time came and in a fairly even game, Crewe found themselves 2 goals behind. As any of the hardy away fans could have told you, there would only be one result.
Crewe huffed and puffed to little effect in the second half and the Wycombe keeper had little work to do until the arrival of teenage starlets Powell and Clayton. They gave Crewe more of a cutting edge, but they were still not incisive enough to pull Crewe back into the game. Indeed, the defeat could have been heavier had Taylor not saved Rendell's second penalty following Dugdale's handball.
So, 12 games on the road this year and that's the 11th consecutive defeat. And it's that form that has really cost the club in it's search for a play-off place. One more win and a few draws would have seen the club up there in the mix, but it's not to be. The best they can do now is finish 9th, worst they can do now is 14th. Not a great finish really, either way, although I predicted mid-table at the start of the season. Not that I feel particularly good about that.
Saturday's game at home to Stockport is the last home game of the season and will be followed by the Crewe ASi end-of-season party. I've volunteered to take photos during the evening, so won't be getting too drunk. Especially as I'm marshalling on the South Cheshire 20 Mile race on Sunday morning.