Chris Nelson

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90 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Apr 2028

Tempers go at Team Wellington

James Cacace 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.

Squad17 Apr 2028

James Nelson 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.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Michael Payne stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Michael Payne and Team Wellington agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

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60 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad20 Sep 2027

Real improvement from Owen Lewis at Waitakere United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Owen Lewis is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Kosta Smith has improved at 29, 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. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Marco Colvey 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.

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