The Cheltenham Town Courier
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Jordan Thomas runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Cheltenham Town
Lamin Sillah 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Fábio Tavares sends Cheltenham Town past Gillingham
It finished 1‑0, and it was Fábio Tavares’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cheltenham Town.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ben Stevenson falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Fábio Tavares was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.04. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Ben Stevenson
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Cheltenham Town buy the years ahead of Paul Richardson
He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market14 Sep 2026
A long bet from Cheltenham Town on Jack Edwards
He is 14, and nobody at Cheltenham Town signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Cheltenham Town pick somebody else ahead of Leon Bätge
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Cheltenham Town and Cameron Norman
- Player ratings Ben Stevenson spends the afternoon fouling