Three Norwich fans arrived early on Saturday without a ticket and were hoping that with a bit of luck someone may have a spare or three, or maybe might have dropped the odd one or three. They tried to blag some off the ticket office but were turned away and then tried to blag some off their own team players but were turned away.
Stephen Youngman was one of three Norwich fans who turned up for tickets in a hope to see Norwich play their last game in Division One for at least a month. He told The Pink 'Un:
"We got to the ticket office first thing and it was shut, we went back there later and tried to get tickets for the home end but the woman on the desk wanted to know our customer number, so that didn't work.
"We even asked some Crewe fans if they would get some for us, but the ticket office would only let them have so many. Our last chance was blagging them from the players as they got off the team bus."
Then they saw Dario Gradi entering the ground and "thought 'in for a penny, in for a pound'". Dario told them to wait there and as the Canary fans waited their hope of seeing their team was draining until the master came back: "A few minutes later we saw him come out looking for us. He took us through the back door and through the stands and into the ticket office and told them to sort us out.
"He was a lovely bloke, and I almost felt guilty when Norwich won! We obviously had to pay, but just being there was great."
It typified the day where Crewe fans and Norwich fans showed what football can be like, with mexican waves taking place, each applauding each others team and fans swapping shirts on the pitch after the game.