Jake Bell

Striker - Team Wellington
18 Apr 2027
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Marked for Jake Bell

36 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Apr 2027

Youssef El Omari 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.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Ben Van Hattum 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 Team Wellington this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Apr 2027

When it matters, Jake Garbett plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

  • Squad Jake Bell asks for a word with the manager
Back issues
7 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Sep 2026

Jai Cacace damages knee ligaments — 119 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 119 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.

Market14 Sep 2026

Jake Colvey 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 The request is on a desk at Team Wellington, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A late step up for Winston Rufer

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

In brief

6 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Sep 2026

Jai Cacace damages knee ligaments — 126 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 126 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.

Market7 Sep 2026

Jake Bell asks to leave Team Wellington

“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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Youssef El Omari 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 Team Wellington this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

2 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Aug 2026

Winston Rufer signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Winston Rufer and Team Wellington agree another 3 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Team Wellington

Ben Van Hattum 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Monty Garbett attracts admirers

The name of Monty Garbett has come up in conversations Team Wellington were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief