Marked for Michael Cacace
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad31 May 2027
Michael Cacace damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match31 May 2027
7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad31 May 2027
Matt Hill 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.
In brief
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Squad
Dane Lewis has improved at 26, which nobody expected
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Squad
Bill McCowatt falls out with a teammate over standards
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces24 May 2027
Anger at Southern 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.
Boardroom24 May 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Southern United
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad24 May 2027
Michael Cacace damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad17 May 2027
Michael Cacace damages knee ligaments — 35 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 35 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market17 May 2027
Matt Hill 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.
Market17 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Southern United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad10 May 2027
Michael Cacace damages knee ligaments — 42 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 42 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad10 May 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dane Lewis commits to Southern United for another 3 years.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Southern United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bill McCowatt 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.