Billy Gee

Central Defender - Crewe Alexandra
18 May 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Billy Gee

38 Edition

The Crewe Alexandra Chronicle

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A row about effort at Crewe Alexandra

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Valero was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Matúš Holíček

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Crewe Alexandra get the job done against Fleetwood Town

A 2‑0 win over Fleetwood Town, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Tempers go at Crewe Alexandra

Billy Gee 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

Too much change too quickly at Crewe Alexandra

10 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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Charlie McNeill

A mark of 7.61, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout

Joshua Hawkins: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.

The dugout

Alfie Pond 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.

Looking ahead

Josh March goes back to face Harrogate Town

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Josh March’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Crewe Alexandra needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

Back issues
37 Edition

The Crewe Alexandra Chronicle

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words at Crewe Alexandra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tatsuki Seko 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.

The terraces

Crewe Alexandra supporters have found a favourite in Charlie McNeill

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

The dugout

David Valero 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.

Match

Crewe Alexandra get the job done against Barnet

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

Squad

Dion Rankine signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dion Rankine commits to Crewe Alexandra for another 3 years.

Player ratings

Kaide Gordon takes the honours

Marked 7.88 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Crewe Alexandra had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

Billy Gee 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 Crewe Alexandra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Home is on Luca Jaquenoud's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Crewe Alexandra are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout

Joshua Hawkins: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief

27 Edition

The Crewe Alexandra Chronicle

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 13 signed and 0 gone

That is the business done at Crewe Alexandra until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Josh March’s move to Wigan Athletic falls through

The deal that would have taken Josh March to Wigan Athletic has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Crewe Alexandra with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Match

8 unbeaten for Crewe Alexandra

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Crewe Alexandra did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Billy Gee gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Billy Gee has just signed for Crewe Alexandra, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Darragh Lenihan 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 Crewe Alexandra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Crewe Alexandra make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Transfer targets

Brentford tell Crewe Alexandra: Ellery Balcombe is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

A row about effort at Crewe Alexandra

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Valero was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Mickey Demetriou 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