Tom Smith

Goalkeeper - Colchester United
28 Nov 2026
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Marked for Tom Smith

12 Edition

The Colchester United Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match17 Oct 2026

Duván Riascos leads the rout of Bromley

4‑1, and Duván Riascos took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Colchester United tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Charlie Goode goes up and wins it — 7.83

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.83 for the rest of it.

The dugout19 Oct 2026

Tom Smith says Colchester United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Dani Ángel is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Ezra Mayers 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 Colchester United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces19 Oct 2026

The crowd has taken to Kyreece Lisbie

At 22 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.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Matthew Smith in the eights

A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

One of those days for Kyreece Lisbie

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.35, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Adrian Akande

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

  • The dugout A promise honoured for Ezra Mayers
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Market No place for Matt Macey in the plan
Back issues
11 Edition

The Colchester United Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Oct 2026

Micah Mbick is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Colchester United

Ezra Mayers 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Jack Tucker signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jack Tucker commits to Colchester United for another 3 years.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at Colchester United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leon Chiwome 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.

Market12 Oct 2026

Colchester United bring in an old head

Kevin Piedrahita is 35 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

Tom Smith goes back to face Bromley

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Tom Smith’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Colchester United needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Market12 Oct 2026

Talks stall between Colchester United and Tom Flanagan

“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.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Ben Perry asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Tom Flanagan has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Tom Flanagan has written the date down.

In brief

1 Edition

The Colchester United Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

James Sasere stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” James Sasere and Colchester United agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Colchester United

Thimothée Lo-Tutala and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Colchester United try to borrow Liam Gibbs

Norwich City have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Colchester United ask about Matthew Litherland

A loan enquiry to Blackburn Rovers: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad3 Aug 2026

5 new faces, and Colchester United 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

No place for Tom Smith in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Tom Smith has his answer from Colchester United; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market3 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Colchester United and James Sasere

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Colchester United, another week without a signature from James Sasere.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Jack Tucker handed the armband

The captaincy goes to Jack Tucker. It is not a job that wins matches, but a dressing room always notices who is given it.

Market3 Aug 2026

Nobody at Colchester United has picked up the phone to Kyreece Lisbie

49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief