The Stevenage Post
Squad20 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at Stevenage
Pedro Álvaro 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
The step up is real for Finlay Gorman
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Player ratings20 Dec 2027
Chem Campbell runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Papus Ouattara wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Stevenage know it.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
No hiding place for Saxon Earley
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Saxon Earley, and the manager let it.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Stevenage count the cost of losing Peter Edwards
18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Simon Allen was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Stevenage dressing room was either.
Match18 Dec 2027
Stevenage and Sheffield United cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Sheffield United came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
Jamie Reid knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stevenage, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Looking ahead Chem Campbell faces his old club
- Market The Kevin Salazar talk will not go away
- Market Still no ink between Stevenage and Michael Mellon