The Crawley Town Courier
Boardroom4 Jun 2035
Crawley Town spell it out for Interim Coach
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom4 Jun 2035
Crisis meeting at Crawley Town
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Market4 Jun 2035
Portsmouth 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.
Squad4 Jun 2035
Tempers go at Crawley Town
Josh Keyes 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.
Transfer targets4 Jun 2035
Sheffield United tell Crawley Town: Nicolò Ferri is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad4 Jun 2035
Words at Crawley Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dylan De-Gale is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad4 Jun 2035
A muscle injury sidelines Samuel Smith for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Crawley Town will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout4 Jun 2035
No hiding place for James Butterworth
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to James Butterworth, and the manager let it.
Market4 Jun 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets Crawley Town ask about Tor Solvoll
- Transfer targets A loan move for Iván Vázquez is in the works
- Transfer targets Crawley Town try to borrow Jacob Fisher