Daniel Spencer

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Crawley Town U18
8 Apr 2028
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49 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad5 Jul 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Spencer

21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Crawley Town lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom5 Jul 2027

Crawley Town put Steven Palmer on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market5 Jul 2027

Dion Pereira 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 Crawley Town can pretend not to have heard.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Tempers go at Crawley Town

Keanan Bennetts 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.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Lee O'Connor falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad5 Jul 2027

No hiding place for Jack Barrett

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jack Barrett, and the manager let it.

Market5 Jul 2027

Crawley Town and Keanan Bennetts 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.

Market5 Jul 2027

Crawley Town buy the years ahead of Josh King

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Boardroom5 Jul 2027

Intake day at the Crawley Town academy

5 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

In brief

Back issues
48 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match26 Jun 2027

No end in sight to Crawley Town's wait for a win

47 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Crawley Town has to find a result from somewhere.

Match26 Jun 2027

Crawley Town cannot find the net

35 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad28 Jun 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Spencer

28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Crawley Town lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match28 Jun 2027

Crawley Town are in real trouble now

Position 23, 27 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market28 Jun 2027

Lewis Richards 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 Crawley Town can pretend not to have heard.

Market28 Jun 2027

Stoke City come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Crawley Town did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market28 Jun 2027

Lewis Richards has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Crawley Town they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Jack Barrett keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Crawley Town may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Real improvement from Jonny Russell at Crawley Town

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jonny Russell is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

In brief