Matt Smith

Defensive Midfielder - Southern United
10 Jul 2027
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9 Edition

The Southern United Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Sep 2026

Real improvement from Liberato Nelson at Southern United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Liberato Nelson is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Liberato Nelson 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 Southern United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Stefan McCowatt has improved at 27, 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

  • Squad Matt Smith falls out with a teammate over standards
Back issues
6 Edition

The Southern United Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Dale Robertson 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 Southern United can pretend not to have heard.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Southern United

Liberato Nelson 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A late step up for Ben Stamatelopoulos

At 26 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