Michael Clark

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109 Edition

The Cheltenham Town Courier

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match26 Aug 2028

Whatever happens, Cheltenham Town do not lose

8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match26 Aug 2028

The run at home goes on for Cheltenham Town

10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Michael Clark is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 16 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Esapa Osong 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.

Squad28 Aug 2028

A late step up for Ruari Paton

At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Ryan Broom out for 62 days

The medical room confirms 62 days on the sidelines for Ryan Broom, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match26 Aug 2028

Cheltenham Town find a way past Swindon Town

Swindon Town made Cheltenham Town work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces28 Aug 2028

Cheltenham Town supporters have found a favourite in Esapa Osong

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Esapa Osong has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings28 Aug 2028

Ninety minutes of Tony Springett at his very best

Marked 8.21. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Cheltenham Town.

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Back issues
32 Edition

The Cheltenham Town Courier

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match6 Mar 2027

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.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Michael Clark says Cheltenham Town 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.

Match6 Mar 2027

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.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Callum Burton signs on for more

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

Squad8 Mar 2027

Andreas Weimann 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.

Player ratings8 Mar 2027

Tony Springett runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief