Chris Sutton

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Waitakere United
29 Jan 2028
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58 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

Waitakere United spell it out for Chris Singh

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Chris Singh has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Squad6 Sep 2027

A fracture rules Gift Mphela out for 78 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Waitakere United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

Crisis meeting at Waitakere United

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Real improvement from Chris Sutton at Waitakere United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Chris Sutton is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Joel Obi 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

A late step up for Liberato Fenton

At 30 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.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

$790.7K taken back off the Waitakere United table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

Market6 Sep 2027

Owen Just leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Owen Just leaves Waitakere United the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

Market6 Sep 2027

Joe Smith leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Joe Smith leaves Waitakere United the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

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48 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad28 Jun 2027

A fracture rules Owen Garbett out for 70 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Waitakere United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market28 Jun 2027

Waitakere United turn down Canterbury United for Dane McCowatt

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market28 Jun 2027

Kosta Cacace has one foot out of the door

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

In brief

44 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad31 May 2027

Owen Garbett breaks a bone — 99 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 99 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad31 May 2027

Chris Sutton is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.

Squad31 May 2027

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Joel Obi 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.

In brief

  • Squad Joel Obi has improved at 36, which nobody expected
31 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces1 Mar 2027

The mood at Waitakere United has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match1 Mar 2027

Every point is an argument now for Waitakere United

Position 7 and 3 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Boardroom1 Mar 2027

The scrutiny sharpens at Waitakere United

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Waitakere United is running low.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Chris Sutton says Waitakere United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Santiago Martínez 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.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Words at Waitakere United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Owen McCowatt 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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Chris Sutton at Waitakere United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Chris Sutton is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Joel Obi 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 Waitakere United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Clayton De Vries has improved at 24, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

In brief