Wes Burns

Right Wingback - Ipswich Town
26 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Wes Burns

19 Edition

The Ipswich Town Herald

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Ipswich Town leave it late against Reading

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 86th, and Reading spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Player ratings

Jaden Philogene runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Ipswich Town make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ipswich Town have 4 straight wins of it.

Market

Jack Clarke wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Tempers go at Ipswich Town

George Hirst 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.

Match

Nobody wins at Ipswich Town

9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match

Jack Clarke the difference as Ipswich Town beat Reading

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jack Clarke. 1‑0 against Reading, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Ipswich Town keep their word to Jaden Philogene

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.

Player ratings

Jacob Greaves was the difference for Ipswich Town

Marked 7.66. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

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The Ipswich Town Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Jaden Philogene wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Ipswich Town hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Azor Matusiwa 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 Ipswich Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Cédric Kipré signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cédric Kipré commits to Ipswich Town for another 4 years.

Market

No place for Christian Walton in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Christian Walton has his answer from Ipswich Town; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Squad

Dan Neil 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

Jaden Philogene knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ipswich Town, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief