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Edition
The WaiBOP United Gazette
17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Callum Smith 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bill Kirwan 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ben Gordon 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 Francis Fenton signs on for more
- Market WaiBOP United put James Kirwan up for sale
- Squad Kosta Waine asks for a word with the manager
- Market The clock does Ben Lewis’s negotiating for him