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Edition
The WaiBOP United Gazette
5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at WaiBOP United
Deklan Wood 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Marco Sutton
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A promotion for Jai Van Hattum
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Jai Van Hattum has moved up it.
In brief
- The dugout Jai Van Hattum knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Jai Barbarouses is put on a programme of his own
- Squad Bill Wood back in training