Mark Grant

Goalkeeper - Stevenage U18
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The Stevenage Post

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten Stevenage

The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market

Rodrigo Moriñigo puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Stevenage, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Mateus Ludke keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Stevenage may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Lewis Koumas, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65

A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Transfer targets

Lisav Eissat will not be coming to Stevenage

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Bristol City is saying, and nobody at Stevenage is enjoying the guessing.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Stevenage

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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Rokas Pukstas

Stevenage asked and West Ham United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Lewis Koumas the difference as Stevenage beat Charlton Athletic

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lewis Koumas. 2‑1 against Charlton Athletic, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces

One of their own: Lewis Koumas

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief