The Chesterfield Courier
Squad23 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dan Butler
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chesterfield lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Chey Dunkley breaks a bone — 85 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Christian Nwachukwu 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Will Grigg asks to leave Chesterfield
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from David Abimbola at Chesterfield
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. David Abimbola is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
A new deal for Steven Hunter
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Chesterfield
Collins Sichenje 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Chesterfield
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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Business is business: Freddie Ladapo goes
Bromley paid $45.0K and Chesterfield took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
In brief
- Market Matthew Bailey steps up from the Chesterfield academy
- Market One of our own: Daniel James joins the Chesterfield first team
- Player ratings Armando Dobra stands above it all