Ben Boxall

Right Midfielder - Al-Orobah U20
31 Dec 2028
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The Al-Orobah Post

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad14 Feb 2028

Simy 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.

Match12 Feb 2028

Nobody wins at Al-Orobah

20 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match12 Feb 2028

Still nobody has beaten Al-Orobah

The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad14 Feb 2028

Tempers go at Al-Orobah

Hamed Al-Maghati 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.

Squad14 Feb 2028

Ismail Juma gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ismail Juma has just signed for Al-Orobah, and for once the answer mattered.

Boardroom14 Feb 2028

Al-Orobah beat the market to Abdulaziz Al-Shammari from Al-Ittihad

Al-Ittihad will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Abdulaziz Al-Shammari has pre-agreed a move to Al-Orobah, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Match12 Feb 2028

Aboubacar Doumbia sends Al-Orobah past Al-Diriyah

It finished 1‑0, and it was Aboubacar Doumbia’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Al-Orobah.

Player ratings14 Feb 2028

Aboubacar Doumbia in the eights

A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad14 Feb 2028

Aboubacar Doumbia is carrying Al-Orobah

10 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief

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The WaiBOP United Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces23 Aug 2027

The mood at WaiBOP 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.

Boardroom23 Aug 2027

The silence upstairs is getting loud at WaiBOP United

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

The terraces23 Aug 2027

WaiBOP United sell a favourite for $27.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Ben De Vries was one of the reasons people came, and $27.0K does not replace that by itself.

Market23 Aug 2027

Alex Van Hattum puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at WaiBOP United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Clayton Rufer is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Tempers go at WaiBOP United

Liberato Tuiloma 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.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Monty De Vries has improved at 26, 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.

Market23 Aug 2027

Ben De Vries moves on

Southern United pay $27.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Loan watch23 Aug 2027

Bill Waine wants to come home

“I did not go to Auckland City to sit and watch. I want to come back to WaiBOP United and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

In brief