The Stevenage Post
Squad10 Jan 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Matt Phillips
137 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stevenage lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market10 Jan 2028
Lewis Freestone hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stevenage can pretend not to have heard.
Market10 Jan 2028
Wigan Athletic watching Taye Ashby-Hammond
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Stevenage have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Stevenage
Hwang Hee-Chan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Stevenage make their move for Ben Hamer
$23.0K on the table at Queens Park Rangers. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Sheffield Wednesday tell Stevenage: Jordan Archer 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.
Market10 Jan 2028
Stevenage promote Anthony Evans from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anthony Evans has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Jan 2028
Peter Collins steps up from the Stevenage academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Peter Collins has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Match8 Jan 2028
A bad afternoon for Stevenage against Charlton Athletic
0‑1 to Charlton Athletic, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
- Squad Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Jamie Reid
- The dugout The view from the dugout