Crawley Town reaching Wembley inspires popular bakery to sell specially-decorated products
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Tilgate Bakery, in Tilgate Parade, have decorated products to celebrate the club reaching the League Two play-off final on Sunday, where they face Crewe Alexandra for a chance to get promoted to League One.
Owner Jane Kirkham said: “We have donuts with red and white sprinkles with shirts on, red and white cookies with red Smarties on, you name it, there is a whole range ready for sale to the customers in support of Crawley Town.
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Hide Ad"They are just flying off the shelves at the moment, we can’t keep up with demand.”
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The club have sold more than 16,000 tickets for the game so far – including the majority of the staff at Tilgate Bakery – and Jane believes everyone should be getting behind the team.
"You have got to get behind the team, this is history in the making. Getting this far is just amazing. I am so looking forward to Sunday, I can’t wait to get to Wembley and give the boys our support.”
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Hide AdJane is predicting a 3-1 win for the Reds and added: “At the beginning of the season, the bookies had them to be relegated and he were. How wrong they were.”
This week’s Crawley Observer has an 8-page special celebrating Reds going to Wembley – you can order a copy here.