The Rivers United Herald
Player ratings18 Jan 2038
Nothing got past Nnamdi Anthony
30 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings18 Jan 2038
Age has not caught Maclyn Biokpo Jenewari yet — 8.81
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.81 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad18 Jan 2038
Hamdi Akujobi 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 Rivers United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2038
The manager makes an example of Paul Ojeh
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match16 Jan 2038
Rivers United find a way past Barau
Barau made Rivers United work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad18 Jan 2038
Mansur Barhama stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mansur Barhama and Rivers United agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad18 Jan 2038
When it matters, Dillon Hoogewerf plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market18 Jan 2038
The Dillon Hoogewerf talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Rivers United know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Player ratings18 Jan 2038
Nobody could get near Dillon Hoogewerf
Successful dribbles: 7. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Market Ebere Ogunjobi leaves for nothing
- Market Terem Olagunju leaves for nothing
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Maclyn Biokpo Jenewari