Liam Robinson

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Burton Albion U18
5 Jul 2029
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Marked for Liam Robinson

147 Edition

The Burton Albion Sentinel

21 May 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market21 May 2029

Ciaran Gilligan asks to leave Burton Albion

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market21 May 2029

Alex Robertson wants more than Burton Albion are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad21 May 2029

Alex Bannon 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 Burton Albion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad21 May 2029

Toby Sibbick 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.

The dugout21 May 2029

A promise honoured for Harvey Araujo

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Burton Albion told Harvey Araujo something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout21 May 2029

Alex Bannon knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burton Albion, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
144 Edition

The Burton Albion Sentinel

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad30 Apr 2029

Liam Robinson damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.

Match30 Apr 2029

The season ends: position 15 for Burton Albion

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 58 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Boardroom30 Apr 2029

The scrutiny sharpens at Burton Albion

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Burton Albion is running low.

Market30 Apr 2029

Nicolò Berengo 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 Burton Albion, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout30 Apr 2029

Adji-Joel Aharrh Gnama keeps the receipts

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

Squad30 Apr 2029

Tempers go at Burton Albion

Alex Bannon was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match24 Apr 2029

A bad afternoon for Burton Albion against Doncaster Rovers

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

Squad30 Apr 2029

Words at Burton Albion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Toby Sibbick 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.

Squad30 Apr 2029

Jayden Jankie wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Burton Albion can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

In brief

143 Edition

The Burton Albion Sentinel

23 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad23 Apr 2029

The knee: Liam Robinson out for 25 days

25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Burton Albion lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad23 Apr 2029

A one-man rearguard from Connal Trueman

There were 6 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.

Player ratings23 Apr 2029

A defender's goal wins it for Burton Albion — 7.90

1 for Alex Bannon, marked 7.90, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

The dugout23 Apr 2029

Gordon Cudjoe keeps the receipts

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

Squad23 Apr 2029

Toby Sibbick 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.

Squad23 Apr 2029

Words exchanged at Burton Albion

Jayden Jankie and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout23 Apr 2029

No hiding place for Jake Evans

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jake Evans, and the manager let it.

Match21 Apr 2029

Burton Albion make home a hard place to visit

8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match21 Apr 2029

Alex Bannon sends Burton Albion past Gillingham

It finished 1‑0, and it was Alex Bannon’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Burton Albion.

In brief

56 Edition

The Burton Albion Sentinel

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market23 Aug 2027

Levski come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Burton Albion did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

The dugout23 Aug 2027

Aribim Pepple says Burton Albion 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.

Transfer targets23 Aug 2027

Burton Albion bid $2.7M for Jake Evans

The offer went to Leicester City this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market23 Aug 2027

James Jones 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 Burton Albion, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets23 Aug 2027

Bunyodkor tell Burton Albion: Hojimat Erkinov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match21 Aug 2027

Burton Albion end the wait against Stockport County

It had gone 8 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Squad23 Aug 2027

A falling-out at Burton Albion

Jack Cooper-Love and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom23 Aug 2027

6 academy players handed senior numbers at Burton Albion

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad23 Aug 2027

A row about effort at Burton Albion

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

In brief