The Northampton Town Herald
Market17 Aug 2026
Lincoln City come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Northampton Town did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Northampton Town
Elliott List 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Northampton Town
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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Armando Shashoua runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 Aug 2026
Jonathan Dixon steps up from the Northampton Town academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jonathan Dixon has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
Eyes on Theo Avery again
The phone has started ringing about Theo Avery again, and this time the name on the line is Salford City. Northampton Town are listening politely and promising nothing.
Match15 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Northampton Town against Mansfield Town
0‑1 to Mansfield Town, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Northampton Town are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Conor McCarthy
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Conor McCarthy, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market Northampton Town and Taylor Richards are talking past each other
- Boardroom Northampton Town turn down the training-ground plan
- Squad Ollie Evans dropped after a run of poor form