Benoît Dumont

Left Wingback - Wrexham
1 Jan 2036
Tuesday
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Marked for Benoît Dumont

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The Wrexham Courier

24 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dujuan Richards

Successful dribbles: 45. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Nosa Obaretin damages knee ligaments — 102 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 102 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.

Match

Wrexham through in the cup

A 2‑1 win over Barnet, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

Cruel end for Barnet as Wrexham pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Wrexham scored in the 97th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Squad

George Thomason says Wrexham went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

A debut David Ward will not forget — 7.32

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.32 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Wrexham

The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Gustavo Sá 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 Wrexham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Danny Imray 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.

In brief

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The Wrexham Courier

18 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Aaron Rowe damages knee ligaments — 33 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 33 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.

Squad

Oliver McTweed breaks a bone — 69 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 69 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

A brace, and Nathan Broadhead takes the afternoon — 8.29

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nathan Broadhead provided it, and the 8.29 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Benoît Dumont says Wrexham went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Gustavo Sá 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 Wrexham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for Wrexham against Luton Town

2‑3 to Luton Town, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Anthony Patterson

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Market

Gustavo Sá linked with a move away

The name of Gustavo Sá keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Wrexham say nothing, which says plenty.

Player ratings

Gustavo Sá runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

403 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

17 Apr 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Danny Imray damages knee ligaments — 26 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 26 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.

Squad

Ben Sheaf breaks a bone — 95 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The terraces

The mood at Wrexham has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Gustavo Sá 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 Wrexham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Sam Smith the difference as Wrexham beat Wolverhampton

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sam Smith. 1‑0 against Wolverhampton, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Benoît Dumont signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Benoît Dumont and Wrexham agree another 4 years.

In brief