The Crewe Alexandra Chronicle
Squad20 Mar 2028
A fracture rules Ffranc Vaughan-Evans out for 54 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Crewe Alexandra will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Zakaria El Kachati, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.07
A mark of 8.07 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Stanley Mills runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Jake Bidwell 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 Crewe Alexandra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Words at Crewe Alexandra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Will Smallbone 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.
Match18 Mar 2028
Zakaria El Kachati sends Crewe Alexandra past Barnsley
It finished 2‑1, and it was Zakaria El Kachati’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Crewe Alexandra.
The terraces20 Mar 2028
The crowd has taken to Lewis Orford
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market20 Mar 2028
One of our own: Jack Palmer joins the Crewe Alexandra first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jack Palmer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market20 Mar 2028
Crewe Alexandra promote David Hunter from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Hunter has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Crewe Alexandra promote Matthew Morris from within
- Market Matthew Bell steps up from the Crewe Alexandra academy
- Squad The manager makes an example of Jack Senior