Mark Evans

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24 May 2030
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The Tranmere Rovers Gazette

20 May 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jack Stacey

81 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tranmere Rovers lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Tranmere Rovers are in real trouble now

Position 22, 17 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

The dugout

Daniil Zavarzin says Tranmere Rovers 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

Bohdan Oroshkevych wants to go home

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Tranmere Rovers

Ayoub Knoun 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Tranmere Rovers

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

In brief

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174 Edition

The Tranmere Rovers Gazette

26 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Alfie McNally out for 71 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tranmere Rovers will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

A hiding for Tranmere Rovers

Beaten 0‑5 by Swindon Town, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

Words exchanged at Tranmere Rovers

Jack Stacey 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.

Squad

Words at Tranmere Rovers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Femi Seriki 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.

Match

Tranmere Rovers cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Tranmere Rovers dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

A mistake Felix Chester will not forget

Goalkeepers do not get to make mistakes; they get to make goals. He made one, he knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

The dugout

Oliver Simmons: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑5, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

The form table has caught Bohdan Oroshkevych

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief