Dean Smith: Saddlers deserve to be at top
Walsall and Gillingham deserve to be the early pace-setters in League One, Saddlers boss Dean Smith believes.
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The two teams, who are first and second in the division, will lock horns at the Banks's Stadium tomorrow with the winner ending the day on top of the table.
And Smith believes his side as well as Justin Edinburgh's men deserve their place at the summit. "Being top of the league and competing for that place is exactly where you want to be," he said
"It's credit to ourselves, to Justin Edinburgh and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink that it's us, Gillingham and Burton that are all competing for that top spot – for many people we are surprise candidates.
"But we deserve to be up there with our results and performances.
