Jason Wright

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
13 Apr 2036
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jason Wright

449 Edition

The Burton Albion Sentinel

5 Mar 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Jason Wright out for 106 days

106 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Burton Albion lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings

A brace, and Dalphine Omuri takes the afternoon — 8.78

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Dalphine Omuri provided it, and the 8.78 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Dalphine Omuri is carrying Burton Albion

22 goals and a season average of 7.20. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Burton Albion make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Burton Albion have 4 straight wins of it.

The dugout

Théo Vermot keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Burton Albion may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Words at Burton Albion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eero Lehto is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Dalphine Omuri sends Burton Albion past Bromley

It finished 2‑0, and it was Dalphine Omuri’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Burton Albion.

Squad

Tempers go at Burton Albion

Shia-Lee Burnham 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.

Market

Burton Albion and Jaime Parra are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

Back issues
448 Edition

The Burton Albion Sentinel

26 Feb 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jason Wright

113 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Burton Albion lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Burton Albion are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 77 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Player ratings

Both of them Kai Brosnan's — 8.08

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.08, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Nobody wants to play Burton Albion right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Match

Kai Brosnan sends Burton Albion past Salford City

It finished 3‑2, and it was Kai Brosnan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Burton Albion.

Squad

Words at Burton Albion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eero Lehto is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Eero Lehto

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Burton Albion

Timo Becker 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.

Player ratings

Joshua Butler was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

435 Edition

The Burton Albion Sentinel

27 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Jason Wright out for 17 days

17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Burton Albion lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Simao Tavares puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Burton Albion, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Burton Albion

Eero Lehto 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.

Squad

Kai Brosnan 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.

Match

Wigan Athletic take the points off Burton Albion

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Joshua Butler

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joshua Butler, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Interim Coach faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Interim Coach after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Eero Lehto

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Burton Albion told Eero Lehto something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Market

The Jaime Parra question follows Burton Albion around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jaime Parra’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

434 Edition

The Burton Albion Sentinel

20 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Jason Wright out for 24 days

24 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Burton Albion lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Kai Brosnan 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burton Albion

Luca Woodhouse 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

No hiding place for Jaime Parra

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jaime Parra, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Burton Albion keep their word to Nick Oyekunle

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Liam Edwards

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Wigan Athletic in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Market

Kai Brosnan linked with a move away

The name of Kai Brosnan keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burton Albion say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

The shop window has Timo Becker in it

Burton Albion have let the market know Timo Becker can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Market

Kevin Núñez runs his contract down

4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Burton Albion money.

In brief