The Colchester United Herald
Market26 Feb 2029
Samson Tovide hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Colchester United can pretend not to have heard.
Match24 Feb 2029
6 matches without a win for Colchester United
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Colchester United are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings26 Feb 2029
Luca Williams-Barnett, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.76
A mark of 7.76 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Dani Ángel in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Colchester United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Feb 2029
Nobody could get near Samson Tovide
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Words at Colchester United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Harvey Vale is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad26 Feb 2029
No hiding place for Myles Roberts
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Myles Roberts, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Too much change too quickly at Colchester United
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Match24 Feb 2029
Colchester United and Chesterfield take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- Market Colchester United buy the years ahead of Mark Evans
- Market Colchester United sign Jason Spencer, one for the future
- Market Colchester United sign David Hamilton, one for the future