The WaiBOP United Gazette
The terraces16 Aug 2027
Anger at WaiBOP United spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at WaiBOP United
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at WaiBOP United is running low.
Market16 Aug 2027
Tim Waine 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A muscle injury and 17 days out for Tommy Singh
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. WaiBOP United will quote 17 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Monty Cacace 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Archie Craig 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
- Squad Jai Waine out for 14 days
- The dugout Monty Cacace knocks on the manager's door
- Market WaiBOP United put Bill De Vries up for sale
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Matt Lockyer