John Cunningham

Defensive Midfielder - Cheltenham Town U18
24 May 2028
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The Cheltenham Town Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: George Maris out for 33 days

33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cheltenham Town lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Caleb Wiley: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cheltenham Town have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Andreas Weimann, 36, rolls back the years — 8.03

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.03 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Kyle Bartley 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 Cheltenham Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Cheltenham Town

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Words at Cheltenham Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Harvey Rodgers 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.

Transfer targets

Udinese tell Cheltenham Town: Hassane Kamara is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Andreas Weimann sends Cheltenham Town past Tranmere Rovers

It finished 2‑0, and it was Andreas Weimann’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cheltenham Town.

Market

Robert Harris steps up from the Cheltenham Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Robert Harris has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief