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Edition
The Canterbury United Gazette
7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Tim Cacace out for 87 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Canterbury United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Sep 2026
Stefan Stamatelopoulos hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Canterbury United can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Cameron De Vries is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
In brief
- Squad Kwenzakwenkosi Mbatha has improved at 25, which nobody expected
- Squad Callum Garbett in a row with a teammate
- Market Deklan Garbett placed on the list