Joe Walters

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737 Edition

The Bristol City Chronicle

10 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings10 Sep 2040

Sam Greenwood, 38, rolls back the years — 8.25

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.25 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market10 Sep 2040

Michael Wright asks to leave Bristol City

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Tempers go at Bristol City

Law McCabe 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.

Match8 Sep 2040

Leandro Bevin the difference as Bristol City beat Middlesbrough

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Leandro Bevin. 2‑1 against Middlesbrough, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings10 Sep 2040

Marten Strootman runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Bristol City pick somebody else ahead of Max Bird

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Words at Bristol City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jason Howard 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.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Sam Greenwood has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Bristol 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.

Market10 Sep 2040

No place for Joe Walters in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Joe Walters has his answer from Bristol City; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

Back issues
726 Edition

The Bristol City Chronicle

25 Jun 2040
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad25 Jun 2040

Tempers go at Bristol City

Max Bird 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.

Market25 Jun 2040

Robert Phillips is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bristol City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad25 Jun 2040

Finley Grigg is still paying for one afternoon at Bristol City

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

674 Edition

The Bristol City Chronicle

27 Jun 2039
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad27 Jun 2039

Max Bird damages knee ligaments — 142 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 142 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market27 Jun 2039

Robert Phillips has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bristol City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad27 Jun 2039

Law McCabe 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.

Squad27 Jun 2039

Tempers go at Bristol City

Liam Clayton 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.

Squad27 Jun 2039

Liam Clayton 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.

Market27 Jun 2039

Jack Hughes leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Jack Hughes leaves Bristol City the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

650 Edition

The Bristol City Chronicle

10 Jan 2039
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad10 Jan 2039

Liam Harris breaks a bone — 26 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad10 Jan 2039

A one-man rearguard from Finley Grigg

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad10 Jan 2039

Jason Knight pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad10 Jan 2039

Tempers go at Bristol City

Max Bird 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.

Match8 Jan 2039

A bad afternoon for Bristol City against Queens Park Rangers

0‑2 to Queens Park Rangers, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings10 Jan 2039

Nobody could get near Marten Strootman

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief