Charles Clarke

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Crawley Town U18
23 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Charles Clarke

6 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Crawley Town close the window on a squad of their own making

22 in and 6 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

Words exchanged at Crawley Town

Jorge Mora and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Crawley Town

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Taylor Richards was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Blackburn Rovers tell Crawley Town: Leo Duru is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

The formation has left Jorge Mora behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Crawley Town will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Squad

Charles Clarke out for 19 days

The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Charles Clarke, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Market

Crawley Town and James Bolton are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Boardroom

Crawley Town counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Crawley Town now.

The dugout

Taylor Richards knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Taylor Richards trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A move Kamarni Ryan would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Kamarni Ryan is living that version at Crawley Town, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Crawley Town bid $3.6M for Nathan Fraser

The offer went to Wolverhampton this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Crawley Town count the cost of losing James Bolton

39 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Kamarni Ryan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kamarni Ryan and Crawley Town agree another 5 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Crawley Town

Taylor Richards was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Transfer targets

Monaco tell Crawley Town: Romaric Etonde is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

One of our own: Richard Murray joins the Crawley Town first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Richard Murray is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Michael Thompson steps up from the Crawley Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michael Thompson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Charles Clarke steps up from the Crawley Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Charles Clarke has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief