Christopher Hunter

Left Forward - Free Agent
4 Apr 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Christopher Hunter

20 Edition

The Birmingham Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Joel Tabiner out for 14 days

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

Squad

A one-man rearguard from James Beadle

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The dugout

Nikoli Degtiarev: 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.” Birmingham have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at Birmingham

Ibrahim Osman and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Birmingham training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Myles Lewis-Skelly 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.

Player ratings

Luis Vázquez in the eights

A performance of 8.34 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

Dael Fry 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.

Player ratings

Jay Stansfield runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Birmingham caught on 94 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Hull City scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

In brief

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The Mansfield Town Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Mansfield Town baulk at the price for Ollie Scarles

West Ham United wanted more than $6.9M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

George Abbott 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 Mansfield Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Mansfield Town

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Noah Fernandez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Joe Worrall

Mansfield Town asked and Wrexham said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Mansfield Town promote Jason Davis from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jason Davis 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.

Market

Mansfield Town promote Christopher Hunter from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christopher 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.

Market

One of our own: Luke Robinson joins the Mansfield Town first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luke Robinson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Joseph Parker steps up from the Mansfield Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Joseph Parker 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.

Squad

The formation has left Noah Fernandez behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Mansfield Town will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief