Riko Robinson

Defensive Midfielder - Exeter City
24 Jul 2030
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198 Edition

The Exeter City Courier

13 May 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings13 May 2030

Sean Steur was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 36. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad13 May 2030

A falling-out at Exeter City

Sean Steur and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad13 May 2030

A row about effort at Exeter City

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

Squad13 May 2030

Exeter City lose Nathan Swift

26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout13 May 2030

Half-satisfied: Interim Coach on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Market13 May 2030

Sam Aston told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Sam Aston has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Exeter City.

The dugout13 May 2030

Andrea Serra 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.

Match11 May 2030

Point won or two lost for Exeter City?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Chesterfield? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

The dugout13 May 2030

Gabriele Falasca has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Exeter City will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

Back issues
167 Edition

The Exeter City Courier

8 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad8 Oct 2029

The knee: Jaroslav Toman out for 65 days

65 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Exeter City lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match6 Oct 2029

Exeter City win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 91th minute. Bromley will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings8 Oct 2029

Zyan Blake, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.82

A mark of 7.82 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad8 Oct 2029

A falling-out at Exeter City

Lewis Gibson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad8 Oct 2029

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

Squad8 Oct 2029

Words at Exeter City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luciano Pereyra 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 terraces8 Oct 2029

Exeter City supporters have found a favourite in Zyan Blake

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Zyan Blake 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 dugout8 Oct 2029

The manager makes an example of Seb Ferdinand

“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.

Match6 Oct 2029

Exeter City find a way past Bromley

Bromley made Exeter City work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief