John Phillips

Right Forward - Harrogate Town U18
9 Oct 2027
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The Harrogate Town Post

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Harrogate Town's wait for a win

11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Harrogate Town has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Harrogate Town taken apart

0‑3 to Fleetwood Town, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Ben Fox asks to leave Harrogate Town

“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.

Transfer targets

Harrogate Town make their move for Tom Dele-Bashiru

$1.3M on the table at Watford. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Match

Harrogate Town cannot find the net

5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Transfer targets

Harrogate Town baulk at the price for Mattie Pollock

Watford wanted more than $1.5M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Boardroom

6 academy players handed senior numbers at Harrogate Town

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.

Transfer targets

Charlton Athletic tell Harrogate Town: Reuben Reid is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

A row about effort at Harrogate Town

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Erik Frøysa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief