Tom Flanagan

Central Defender - Colchester United
29 Sep 2026
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Marked for Tom Flanagan

9 Edition

The Colchester United Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match26 Sep 2026

No end in sight to Colchester United's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Colchester United has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Matt Macey 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

A bad afternoon for Colchester United against Cambridge United

0‑1 to Cambridge United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad28 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Jack Tucker

“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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

JK Gordon has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Colchester United will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad28 Sep 2026

The plan did not have a place for Tom Flanagan

Nobody at Colchester United is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Colchester United Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Finley Barbrook

Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match16 Sep 2026

The small margins put Colchester United out

Out, 2‑3 to Plymouth Argyle, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Adrian Akande scores twice — 7.89

Two goals and a mark of 7.89 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Colchester United

Matt Macey 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Matt Macey

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matt Macey, and the manager let it.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Too much change too quickly at Colchester United

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

7 Edition

The Colchester United Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad14 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Colchester United

Malick Sylla 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.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Pascal Köpke runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces14 Sep 2026

Colchester United supporters have found a favourite in Calvin Ramsay

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Calvin Ramsay has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market14 Sep 2026

Talks stall between Colchester United and Jack Senior

“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.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

The afternoon belonged to Calvin Ramsay

7.38, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Colchester United had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Tom Flanagan 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.

Match12 Sep 2026

No goals between Colchester United and Crawley Town

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Crawley Town will be the happier side with the point.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A wage question at Colchester United

Kyreece Lisbie has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

Squad14 Sep 2026

The plan did not have a place for Tom Flanagan

Nobody at Colchester United is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

In brief