Anthony James

Left Forward - Shrewsbury Town U18
5 Dec 2028
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Marked for Anthony James

114 Edition

The Shrewsbury Town Post

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market2 Oct 2028

Aimar Govea 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 The request is on a desk at Shrewsbury Town, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Tennai Watson 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.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Filippo Costa 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 Shrewsbury Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match26 Sep 2028

Layton Love the difference as Shrewsbury Town beat Preston

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

Squad2 Oct 2028

Shrewsbury Town count the cost of losing Anthony James

35 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings2 Oct 2028

Filippo Costa runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Matthew Cox reaches 35 shut-outs

35 games in 112 appearances where nobody scored at all. A keeper's career is counted in nothing happening, and none of this happened by accident.

The dugout2 Oct 2028

No hiding place for Layton Love

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

Market2 Oct 2028

Still no ink between Shrewsbury Town and Jack Shepherd

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Shrewsbury Town, another week without a signature from Jack Shepherd.

In brief

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108 Edition

The Shrewsbury Town Post

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Aug 2028

Jay Snook breaks a bone — 27 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market21 Aug 2028

Shrewsbury Town say no — this time

The offer from Norwich City for Henry Cartwright was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets21 Aug 2028

Shrewsbury Town agree $1.3M for Charlie Holt

The clubs have shaken hands with Manchester City; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Player ratings21 Aug 2028

Age has not caught Filippo Costa yet — 7.98

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.98 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market21 Aug 2028

Guillermo Guzmán 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 Shrewsbury Town, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad21 Aug 2028

Harvey Vale signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Harvey Vale and Shrewsbury Town agree another 5 years.

Boardroom21 Aug 2028

5 academy graduates step up at Shrewsbury Town

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad21 Aug 2028

A row about effort at Shrewsbury Town

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

Transfer targets21 Aug 2028

Shrewsbury Town rebuffed over Alassana Jatta

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Preston have kept their man, and Shrewsbury Town go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief