Scott Malone

Left Back - Crawley Town
28 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Scott Malone

4 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Scott Malone hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Crawley Town can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Crawley Town

Lewis Richards 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Malcolm Ebiowei

At 23 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.

Squad

Words at Crawley Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jay Williams 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.

Player ratings

Malcolm Ebiowei stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.54 on the card, and the Crawley Town support went home talking about one name.

Squad

Jacob Chapman left out for tactical reasons at Crawley Town

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Match

Crawley Town draw a blank against Oldham Athletic

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Oldham Athletic defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dion Pereira

Successful dribbles: 8. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Talks stall between Crawley Town and Andrew Brown

“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

Back issues
3 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Malcolm Ebiowei runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Lewis Richards 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

Jay Williams 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

The manager makes an example of Danny Cashman

“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.

Boardroom

No investment in the facilities at Crawley Town

Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.

Market

Fate Kotey is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Crawley Town has been clear about where Fate Kotey stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

1 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Crawley Town

Lewis Richards 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.

Squad

Dion Pereira stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Dion Pereira and Crawley Town agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words at Crawley Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dion Pereira 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.

Market

Crawley Town and Lewis Richards are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

6 new faces, and Crawley Town are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Market

Scott Malone told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Scott Malone has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Crawley Town.

In brief