Kazim-Richards confident of 'destination survival'

New Crawley Town manager Colin Kazim-Richards has said he is confident he can keep them in the English Football League this season. The Reds are currently 21st in League Two, one point and two places above the relegation zone with seven games to play. The 39-year-old was appointed on Tuesday to replace the sacked Scott Lindsey after a run of 10 games without a win.

"If I didn't believe we can stay up I wouldn't be here," Kazim-Richards told BBC Radio Sussex. "I don't like to talk about it too much, because I do believe in the power of word. When you do speak too much on a negative thing, that negative thing becomes a reality.

"It will be my name and Crawley's name that go down, not what's happened before. When you look at it in five years' time, it won't say 'Colin Kazim-Richards took over and he only had seven games', and there's an asterix. "It will just say 'relegation'.

I know what that is, I know how that feels, and I don't want it. Nobody else wants that. " The Turkey international had a 21-year playing career including spells at Brighton, Sheffield United, Celtic and Derby County, as well as stints abroad in a host of countries including Turkey, Brazil, Greece and the Netherlands.