David Artell has told the club’s official website that our destiny has to remain in our own hands because ‘football is a ruthless business’. The Alex boss has admitted that he is not paying too much attention to what the other clubs are doing at the bottom of the League Two table and he wants his players to focus totally on what we need to do to get out of trouble.

The Crewe boss told crewealex.net: “We have to focus on what we do. That will be the case until it becomes otherwise. We don’t want it to come to that. We don’t want to be relying on anyone and we have to make sure we get the points we will need.

“You cannot expect any favours in football because it is a ruthless business and anything can happen. If you get yourself into a position where you need favours then you usually get what is coming to you.

“There are enough games and enough points to go for and we are not focussing on anything else other than getting a result at Notts County this weekend.”