The Crawley Town Courier
Boardroom7 May 2035
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Crawley Town can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom7 May 2035
The Crawley Town board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Market7 May 2035
Tom Wingate is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Crawley Town is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 May 2035
Josh Keyes 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.
Squad7 May 2035
Robert Williams out for 29 days
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Robert Williams, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market7 May 2035
Talks stall between Crawley Town and Tom Wingate
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad7 May 2035
Adam Miller signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Adam Miller commits to Crawley Town for another 3 years.
The dugout7 May 2035
The manager makes an example of Valentin Fuss
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout7 May 2035
Lars Daehli without the man who signed him
Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Lars Daehli was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.
In brief
- Squad Lars Daehli wants out of the dugout
- Market The Josh Keyes talk will not go away
- Market The clock does Josh Keyes’s negotiating for him