The Chesterfield Courier
Squad3 Dec 2035
Juan Cruz Meza damages knee ligaments — 47 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 47 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.
Squad3 Dec 2035
Lee Bonis signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lee Bonis and Chesterfield agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Dec 2035
Lee Bonis 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 Chesterfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom3 Dec 2035
$2.5M of the owner's money at Chesterfield
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Squad3 Dec 2035
Joe Boggan is carrying Chesterfield
8 goals and a season average of 7.37. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match1 Dec 2035
Joe Boggan the difference as Chesterfield beat Newport County
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Joe Boggan. 1‑0 against Newport County, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings3 Dec 2035
A masterclass from Joe Boggan
Marked 8.46 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Boardroom3 Dec 2035
The Chesterfield debt reaches $57.5M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Player ratings3 Dec 2035
Henry Brown runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market Simon Jackson told to find a new club
- Market The Liam Kitching talk will not go away
- Player ratings Alfie Cresswell was immovable