The Crawley Town Courier
Squad5 Oct 2026
8 saves: Jacob Chapman was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match3 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Crawley Town
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Crawley Town are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Crawley Town — 7.87
1 for George Maris, marked 7.87, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Matthew Litherland 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Taylor Richards 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
Crawley Town promote David Graham from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Graham 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Jacob Labovitz
“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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Taylor Richards did the work nobody counts — 7.21
9 combined actions and 7.21. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Jonathan Rodríguez signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonathan Rodríguez and Crawley Town agree another 2 years.
In brief
- Match Crawley Town share the spoils with Fleetwood Town
- The dugout Peter Foster on the point
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Jonny Russell