The Southern United Herald
Squad13 Sep 2027
Marco Cacace damages knee ligaments — 95 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 95 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.
Match13 Sep 2027
Southern United are in real trouble now
Position 5, 12 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Tim Van Hattum breaks a bone — 53 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 53 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Real improvement from Zaid Osman at Southern United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Zaid Osman is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market13 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Michael Colvey
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Michael Colvey will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Southern United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Kosta Van Hattum 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
- Market Michael Tuiloma leaves for nothing
- Market Owen Nelson leaves for nothing
- Market Window shut, Tim Van Hattum still here
- Boardroom The Southern United production line keeps running