Kieran Wilson

Striker - Exeter City
29 Sep 2026
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The Exeter City Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Exeter City's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Exeter City has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

The goals have deserted Exeter City

6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Exeter City can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Tempers go at Exeter City

Ethan Brierley 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

Frankie Phillips is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Player ratings

Matthew Sorinola takes the honours

Marked 7.03 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Exeter City had the best player on the pitch.

Player ratings

Carlos Mendes Gomes runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Exeter City Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A move Matthew Sorinola 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. Matthew Sorinola is living that version at Exeter City, and it tends to show in the first month.

Player ratings

Josh Magennis, 36, rolls back the years — 7.82

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.82 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Johnly Yfeko attracts admirers

The name of Johnly Yfeko has come up in conversations Exeter City were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Tempers go at Exeter City

Ethan Brierley 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

Josh Magennis the difference as Exeter City beat Rotherham United

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Josh Magennis. 1‑0 against Rotherham United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market

Still no ink between Exeter City and Matthew Sorinola

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Exeter City, another week without a signature from Matthew Sorinola.

Market

The Liam Oakes conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Bromley will make the call about Liam Oakes this week. Exeter City have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad

5 new faces, and Exeter City are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Boardroom

No investment in the facilities at Exeter City

Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.

In brief