STAGS RETRO: The year Crewe proved to be the Stags' bogey side
Mansfield Town host Crewe Alexandra and it's fair to say they'll be hoping to fare better than they did when the sides met four times in the 2002/2003 season.
That campaign, Crewe romped to a 5-0 win at Field Mill early in the season, while they returned to win 4-0 in the Football League Trophy.
Add to that a 3-0 defeat at Gresty Road in the FA Cup and a 2-0 loss there in the league, and it proved a pretty horrid team for Stags to face.
The 5-0 defeat left Stags fans hard pressed to think of a worse performance in many years.
The scores were goalless until Richard Walker put the visitors in front on the half-hour mark, the first of three goals in eight disastrous minutes as Rodney Jack and then Rob Hulse added further strikes before half-time.
Stephen Foster made it 4-0 just after half-time before Kenny Lunt wrapped things up midway through the second-half.
