John Cunningham

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Harrogate Town U18
25 Nov 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for John Cunningham

60 Edition

The Harrogate Town Post

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Sam Waller is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Sam Waller: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Squad

Aiden Marsh breaks a bone — 78 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 78 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Harrogate Town out of the cup

Bolton Wanderers ended it 1‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Transfer targets

Harrogate Town rebuffed over Dante Cassanova

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

Match

Walsall take the points off Harrogate Town

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Harrogate Town count the cost of losing John Cunningham

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Harrogate Town

Ilias Moysidis 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 dugout

James Norwood gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Ilias Moysidis fails from the spot

Twelve yards and the whole ground holding its breath, and it did not go in. He will put his name down for the next one, which is the only thing to do.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Harrogate Town Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Sam Waller keeps Harrogate Town in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Joe Gbode

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Harrogate Town have done the hard part with Luton Town, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Sam Waller 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 Harrogate Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Keehan Willows gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Keehan Willows has just signed for Harrogate Town, and for once the answer mattered.

Boardroom

4 academy players handed senior numbers at Harrogate 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Harrogate Town against Bristol Rovers

1‑3 to Bristol Rovers, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

Daniel Richardson steps up from the Harrogate Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Richardson 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.

Market

Charles Cook steps up from the Harrogate Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Charles Cook 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.

Market

Harrogate Town promote John Cunningham from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. John Cunningham has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief