Alfie Devine

Defensive Midfielder - Preston
7 Sep 2026
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Marked for Alfie Devine

4 Edition

The Preston Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Lewis Dobbin

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market24 Aug 2026

Liam Lindsay 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 Preston can pretend not to have heard.

Market24 Aug 2026

Eyes on Jordan Storey again

The phone has started ringing about Jordan Storey again, and this time the name on the line is Derby County. Preston are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Lewis Gibson 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 Preston this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match22 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for Preston against Cardiff City

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

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Preston training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alfie Devine 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.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Preston Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market17 Aug 2026

Derby County come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Preston did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market17 Aug 2026

Business is business: Daniel Iversen goes

Liverpool paid $6.0M and Preston took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Preston sell a favourite for $6.0M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Daniel Iversen was one of the reasons people came, and $6.0M does not replace that by itself.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Preston

Lewis Gibson 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.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Graduation day at Preston

4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad17 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Ryan Fredericks

“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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Lewis Dobbin

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market17 Aug 2026

Preston promote Robert Thompson from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Robert Thompson has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market17 Aug 2026

Preston promote Richard Grant from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Richard Grant has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief