Michael Sutton

Striker - WaiBOP United
28 May 2028
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77 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Jan 2028

A fracture rules Tim Payne out for 33 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WaiBOP United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market17 Jan 2028

Oliver Sutton asks to leave WaiBOP United

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match15 Jan 2028

No end in sight to WaiBOP United's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at WaiBOP United has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings17 Jan 2028

Nobody could get near Jake Lewis

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Jan 2028

A one-man rearguard from Chris Barbarouses

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Francis Colvey keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” WaiBOP United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match15 Jan 2028

No clean sheets in sight for WaiBOP United

7 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Match15 Jan 2028

Michael Sutton’s goal not enough for WaiBOP United

Michael Sutton scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Team Wellington, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Words at WaiBOP United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jake 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
76 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market10 Jan 2028

Joe Lewis asks to leave WaiBOP United

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad10 Jan 2028

A fracture rules Tim Payne out for 40 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WaiBOP United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market10 Jan 2028

Hawke's Bay United come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and WaiBOP United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match8 Jan 2028

6 matches without a win for WaiBOP United

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around WaiBOP United are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings10 Jan 2028

Jake Lewis runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match8 Jan 2028

WaiBOP United are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Jake Lewis 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 WaiBOP United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match8 Jan 2028

Southern United take the points off WaiBOP United

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Francis Colvey 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