Declan Frith

Left Midfielder - Peterborough United
27 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Declan Frith

5 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Cian Hayes

Successful dribbles: 60. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Peterborough United

Lee Young-Jun 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

Peterborough United get the job done against Exeter City

A 1‑0 win over Exeter City, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Matthew Garbett stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.86 on the card, and the Peterborough United support went home talking about one name.

Squad

Bradley Ihionvien dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Squad

Bradley Ihionvien 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.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Declan Frith runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Archie Collins 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 Peterborough United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Peterborough United find a way past Leyton Orient

Leyton Orient made Peterborough United work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

Peterborough United supporters have found a favourite in Cian Hayes

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Cian Hayes 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Rio Adébísí

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

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Cian Hayes

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

In brief

2 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Wolverhampton come back empty-handed

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

Market

Pemi Aderoju puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Peterborough United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Alex Bass signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alex Bass and Peterborough United agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Peterborough United

Archie Collins 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.

Squad

Declan Frith 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

Declan Frith 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.

In brief