Marco Boxall

Right Midfielder - Southern United
8 Oct 2027
Friday
Process

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40 Edition

The Southern United Herald

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Southern 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.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Southern United

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Southern United is running low.

Market

Tim Van Hattum hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Southern United can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Stefan Fenton 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 Southern United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Cameron Boxall 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.

Market

A year gone for James Bell

The loan was meant to give him football. 0 games and 0 goals later he is back at Southern United no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their doing.

In brief

Back issues
21 Edition

The Southern United Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Southern United tear Canterbury United apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Canterbury United, and it could have been more.

Market

Monty 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 The request is on a desk at Southern United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

One of those days for Stefan Fenton

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Kosta Van Hattum was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.08. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Tempers go at Southern United

Liberato Nelson 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.

Loan watch

James Bell counts the days

“I watch every Southern United game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at WaiBOP United runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

Michael Colvey dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Squad

Liberato Nelson gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

When it matters, Michael Van Hattum plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

6 Edition

The Southern United Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Bill Nelson 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 Southern United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Lulama Nxumalo is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.

Squad

Dane Bell 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