Samuel Bennett

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Ipswich Town U18
13 Mar 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Samuel Bennett

18 Edition

The Ipswich Town Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten Ipswich Town

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market

Ipswich Town may not be able to give Jaden Philogene what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jaden Philogene wants continental football; whether Ipswich Town can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Ipswich Town

Exequiel Palacios 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.

Match

The run at home goes on for Ipswich Town

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jaden Philogene

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Samuel Bennett out for 22 days

The medical room confirms 22 days on the sidelines for Samuel Bennett, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

Julio Enciso was the difference for Ipswich Town

Marked 7.84. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Player ratings

Sindre Walle Egeli turns it into his own net

Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Ipswich Town deserved better, and so did he.

Match

Ipswich Town share the spoils with Middlesbrough

A 1‑1 draw with Middlesbrough leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Ipswich Town Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Ipswich Town tear Sheffield United apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Sheffield United, and it could have been more.

Market

Ipswich Town say no — this time

The offer from Birmingham for Alex Palmer was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Exequiel Palacios 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Ipswich Town

4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Julio Enciso

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Market

Ipswich Town promote Samuel Bennett from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Samuel Bennett 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

One of our own: John Simmons joins the Ipswich Town first team

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

Market

Thomas Kelly steps up from the Ipswich Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thomas Kelly 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Julio Enciso at his very best

Marked 8.47. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ipswich Town.

In brief