Michael Phillips

Central Defender - Cheltenham Town
26 May 2030
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Marked for Michael Phillips

189 Edition

The Cheltenham Town Courier

11 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings11 Mar 2030

Nobody could get near Kyle Edwards

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad11 Mar 2030

Tempers go at Cheltenham Town

George Maris was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad11 Mar 2030

Taylor Richards 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.

Match9 Mar 2030

A bad afternoon for Cheltenham Town against Cambridge United

0‑1 to Cambridge United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad11 Mar 2030

Jake Reeves gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad11 Mar 2030

Cheltenham Town count the cost of losing Michael Phillips

14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief

Back issues
185 Edition

The Cheltenham Town Courier

11 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad11 Feb 2030

A fracture rules Fred King out for 39 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cheltenham Town will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings11 Feb 2030

Nobody could get near Danny Butterworth

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad11 Feb 2030

George Maris 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.

Squad11 Feb 2030

Words at Cheltenham Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Taylor Richards 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.

Match9 Feb 2030

Cheltenham Town find a way past Northampton Town

Northampton Town made Cheltenham Town work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings11 Feb 2030

Ninety minutes of Matheus Vieira at his very best

Marked 8.19. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Cheltenham Town.

In brief

170 Edition

The Cheltenham Town Courier

29 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match27 Oct 2029

The wait goes on for Cheltenham Town

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match27 Oct 2029

The goals have deserted Cheltenham Town

5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Cheltenham Town can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad29 Oct 2029

Tempers go at Cheltenham Town

George Maris was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad29 Oct 2029

Teddy Bishop has improved at 33, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad29 Oct 2029

Taylor Richards 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.

Player ratings29 Oct 2029

Nobody could get near Kyle Edwards

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad29 Oct 2029

Michael Phillips signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Michael Phillips and Cheltenham Town agree another 3 years.

Player ratings29 Oct 2029

The afternoon belonged to Riley Owen

A mark of 7.48, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match27 Oct 2029

Point won or two lost for Cheltenham Town?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Wrexham? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief