Robert Scott

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Ipswich Town U18
23 Aug 2028
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Robert Scott

22 Edition

The Ipswich Town Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Robert Scott

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

Market

Jack Clarke 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 Ipswich Town can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A fracture rules Gerrard Buabo out for 21 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ipswich Town will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout

Eliot Matazo: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ipswich Town have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

Ipswich Town make home a hard place to visit

12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Market

Sport Recife come back empty-handed

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

Market

Marcelino Núñez has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Ipswich Town can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Ipswich Town

Marcelino Núñez 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.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Sam Szmodics’s exile

16 goals in 22 games at Derby County — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Ipswich Town updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief

Back issues
21 Edition

The Ipswich Town Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Robert Scott

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

Squad

Gerrard Buabo breaks a bone — 30 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Issa Diop 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 Ipswich Town can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

A brace, and Chuba Akpom takes the afternoon — 8.75

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Chuba Akpom provided it, and the 8.75 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Exequiel Palacios has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Ipswich Town can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Marcelino Núñez 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 Ipswich Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Chuba Akpom among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Chuba Akpom on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Ipswich Town and Blackburn Rovers.

Squad

Julio Enciso 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.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Sam Szmodics’s exile

15 goals in 20 games at Derby County — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Ipswich Town updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief

20 Edition

The Ipswich Town Herald

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Robert Scott damages knee ligaments — 34 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 34 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Chuba Akpom leads the rout of Charlton Athletic

4‑1, and Chuba Akpom took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Ipswich Town tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Match

The cup run ends for Ipswich Town

1‑2 against Tottenham, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

38 days out for Gerrard Buabo after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ipswich Town will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Chuba Akpom takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match

The run at home goes on for Ipswich Town

11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

Leif Davis 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 Ipswich Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Julio Enciso scored one and made one — 7.53

Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.53, and 2 involvements.

Player ratings

Chuba Akpom was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.46. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief