{"id":668704,"date":"2026-07-01T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668704\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:28:09","slug":"sean-raggett-colchester-united-sign-experienced-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/668704\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Raggett: Colchester United sign experienced defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colchester United have confirmed the signing of experienced central defender Sean Raggett following his departure from Rotherham United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old was one of 11 players confirmed to be departing the Millers in May after their relegation to League Two last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raggett began his career at hometown club Gillingham before a six-year spell at Dover Athletic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/38940052\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scored the winning goal<\/a> in Lincoln City&#8217;s famous 1-0 FA Cup victory at Burnley as the Imps became the first non-league outfit to reach the quarter-finals of the competition for 103 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Raggett moved to Portsmouth in 2020 and was part of the side that won the League One title four years later, making 239 appearances in total for the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colchester United have confirmed the signing of experienced central defender Sean Raggett following his departure from Rotherham United.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}