The Northampton Town Herald
Market24 Aug 2026
James Dadge 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 The request is on a desk at Northampton Town, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Cundo
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Elliott List 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 Northampton Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
Theo Avery moves on
Salford City pay $470.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A move Billy Blacker would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Billy Blacker is living that version at Northampton Town, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Taylor Richards 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Billy Blacker stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Billy Blacker and Northampton Town agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market24 Aug 2026
A long bet from Northampton Town on Billy Blacker
He is 20, and nobody at Northampton Town signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market24 Aug 2026
Northampton Town buy the years ahead of Marley Wilson
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
In brief
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Adam Phillips
- Match Point won or two lost for Northampton Town?
- Player ratings The referee tires of Terry Taylor