Sam Cacace

Defensive Midfielder - Team Wellington
17 Jul 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Sam Cacace

87 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oliver Stamatelopoulos

102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Team Wellington lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Dane Stamatelopoulos 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 Team Wellington this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Team Wellington training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Liberato Lewis is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

Back issues
36 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Every point is an argument now for Team Wellington

Position 5 and 12 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Team Wellington boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Cameron Singh 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 The request is on a desk at Team Wellington, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Team Wellington

Dane Stamatelopoulos 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.

Squad

Words at Team Wellington training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sam Payne is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

Still no ink between Team Wellington and Dane Stamatelopoulos

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Team Wellington, another week without a signature from Dane Stamatelopoulos.

In brief

35 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Sam Cacace: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Team Wellington have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Dane Stamatelopoulos 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 Team Wellington this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Alex Garbett 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.

In brief