Jonathan Cooper

Central Defender - Peterborough United U18
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Sunday
Process

Marked for Jonathan Cooper

112 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

The caretaker keeps it: Christopher Allen confirmed

A month of looking elsewhere ended where it started. He already knows every name in the building; the rest of it he now has to prove in public.

Squad

Scott Twine 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 Peterborough United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jeremy Monga

Peterborough United asked and Everton said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

No hiding place for Declan Frith

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

Match

Scott Twine sends Peterborough United past Wigan Athletic

It finished 1‑0, and it was Scott Twine’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Peterborough United.

Squad

Jonathan Cooper out for 14 days

The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Jonathan Cooper, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Matthew Garbett

Marked 8.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Market

Peterborough United and Pemi Aderoju 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.

The dugout

A fresh start for Taylor Harwood-Bellis under the new man

Nothing resets a career like somebody arriving who did not pick the side last season. Taylor Harwood-Bellis has taken the hint, and Peterborough United are getting a version of him the previous regime had stopped seeing.

In brief