Jacob Murphy

Right Midfielder - Crawley Town U20
15 Jan 2029
Monday
Process

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37 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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

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

Match

24 matches without a goal for Crawley Town

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 24 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market

Dion Pereira asks to leave Crawley Town

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Jay Williams 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.

Squad

Keanan Bennetts 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 Crawley Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Fin Back 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.

Squad

Jay Williams gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Crawley Town keep their word to Ato Ampah

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Market

Crawley Town sign Thomas Harris, one for the future

Thomas Harris is 14, and Crawley Town have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief