Benjamin Jackson

Central Defender - Mansfield Town U18
21 May 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Benjamin Jackson

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The Mansfield Town Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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

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

The dugout

Owen Mason says Mansfield Town went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Real improvement from George Abbott at Mansfield Town

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. George Abbott is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Mansfield Town

Lamare Bogarde 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.

Player ratings

Édouard Dupuy runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A row about effort at Mansfield Town

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

Market

Mansfield Town promote Benjamin Jackson from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Benjamin Jackson has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Harry Reid steps up from the Mansfield Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Harry Reid 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

Mansfield Town promote George Russell from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. George Russell has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief