The Cheltenham Town Courier
Squad6 Nov 2028
A fracture rules Edoardo Bernardi out for 51 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cheltenham Town will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad6 Nov 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Stephen Mitchell
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cheltenham Town lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match4 Nov 2028
Nowhere to hide for Cheltenham Town
0‑3 against Stockport County, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Player ratings6 Nov 2028
Josh Andrews scores twice — 8.45
Two goals and a mark of 8.45 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market6 Nov 2028
Edoardo Bernardi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cheltenham Town they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Hassan Mohamed Yusuf gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Hassan Mohamed Yusuf has just signed for Cheltenham Town, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad6 Nov 2028
The decline has begun for Andreas Weimann
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 37 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Cheltenham Town is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
The terraces6 Nov 2028
One of their own: Louis Moussier
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match31 Oct 2028
Josh Andrews sends Cheltenham Town past Tranmere Rovers
It finished 2‑0, and it was Josh Andrews’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cheltenham Town.
In brief
- Boardroom Nobody left the Cheltenham Town dressing room in a hurry
- Market Cheltenham Town and Josh Andrews are talking past each other
- The dugout Benjamin Mitchell: “No excuses”