The Gillingham Herald
Market8 Feb 2027
Jake Turner hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gillingham can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Gillingham
Alan Martínez 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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Remeao Hutton
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Alexei Rojas Fedorushchenko
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexei Rojas Fedorushchenko, and the manager let it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Remeao Hutton makes it 200
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Peter Mitchell for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Gillingham will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Aaron Rowe in the eights
A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match6 Feb 2027
Harrogate Town snatch it back from Gillingham
A goal on 89 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Alexei Rojas Fedorushchenko makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
In brief
- Match Gillingham and Harrogate Town take a point apiece
- Match Gillingham and Fleetwood Town take a point apiece
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Michael Murphy on the draw