Alexander Baumgartner

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Colchester United
31 Jan 2036
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493 Edition

The Colchester United Herald

7 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad7 Jan 2036

Jason Phillips damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market7 Jan 2036

Jamie Pardington 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 The request is on a desk at Colchester United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad7 Jan 2036

Adrian Akande 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 Colchester United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Jan 2036

JK Gordon stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” JK Gordon and Colchester United agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings7 Jan 2036

Nobody could get near Tyrese Hall

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match5 Jan 2036

AFC Wimbledon take the points off Colchester United

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

Squad7 Jan 2036

Words at Colchester United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kaion Lisbie 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.

Boardroom7 Jan 2036

91% of the income goes out in wages at Colchester United

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Market7 Jan 2036

The Ellis Iandolo story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ellis Iandolo signs something — a contract at Colchester United or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

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The Colchester United Herald

24 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad24 Sep 2035

Jason Phillips damages knee ligaments — 130 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 130 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad24 Sep 2035

Jamie Pardington decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match19 Sep 2035

Colchester United through in the cup

A 1‑1 win over Mansfield Town, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings24 Sep 2035

Nobody could get near Mateusz Glik

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match22 Sep 2035

5 matches without a win for Colchester United

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Colchester United are no longer polite ones.

Squad24 Sep 2035

Tempers go at Colchester United

Adrian Akande 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.

Squad24 Sep 2035

Kaion Lisbie 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 ratings24 Sep 2035

The kick that got away from Luther Furman

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

Match22 Sep 2035

Colchester United and Grimsby Town take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief