The Sheffield Herald
Squad23 Aug 2027
Yan Valery damages knee ligaments — 59 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 59 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Sheffield
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Zain Silcott-Duberry at Sheffield
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Zain Silcott-Duberry is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match21 Aug 2027
The goals have deserted Sheffield
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Sheffield can tell you which week it ends in.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Sheffield
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.
Match21 Aug 2027
6 unbeaten for Sheffield
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Sheffield did not have in the autumn.
Market23 Aug 2027
Sheffield promote Joseph Matthews from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Joseph Matthews 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Steven Hunter joins the Sheffield first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Steven Hunter is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Aug 2027
Sheffield promote Jacob Hamilton from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jacob Hamilton 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
- Market One of our own: Paul Young joins the Sheffield first team
- Squad Nicusor Cicaldau falls out with a teammate over standards
- Squad Tempers go at Sheffield