Paul Smith

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Gillingham
3 Feb 2036
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474 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

27 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match25 Aug 2035

17 matches without a win for Gillingham

The run now stands at 17, and the questions being asked around Gillingham are no longer polite ones.

The terraces27 Aug 2035

Anger at Gillingham spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Player ratings27 Aug 2035

Seb Palmer-Houlden runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market27 Aug 2035

Szymon Klich asks to leave Gillingham

“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.

Squad27 Aug 2035

Oliver Shaw says Gillingham went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad27 Aug 2035

Paul Smith is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad27 Aug 2035

Pedro Naressi 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.

Match25 Aug 2035

A bad afternoon for Gillingham against Peterborough United

1‑3 to Peterborough United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad27 Aug 2035

Víctor Barrionuevo 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 Gillingham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

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470 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

30 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad30 Jul 2035

A fracture rules Jérémy Petris out for 25 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gillingham will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom30 Jul 2035

The scrutiny sharpens at Gillingham

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Gillingham is running low.

The terraces30 Jul 2035

Anger at Gillingham spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad30 Jul 2035

Aidan Elliott-Wheeler says Gillingham went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market30 Jul 2035

Ekemini Ime 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 Gillingham can pretend not to have heard.

Squad30 Jul 2035

Paul Smith is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

In brief

449 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

5 Mar 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match3 Mar 2035

Nobody wins at Gillingham

18 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Player ratings5 Mar 2035

Nobody could get near Seb Palmer-Houlden

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

Squad5 Mar 2035

Paul Smith gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Paul Smith has just signed for Gillingham, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad5 Mar 2035

Words at Gillingham training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Naressi 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.

Squad5 Mar 2035

Nelson Khumbeni signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nelson Khumbeni commits to Gillingham for another 3 years.

Squad5 Mar 2035

Tempers go at Gillingham

Víctor Barrionuevo 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.

Match3 Mar 2035

Gillingham see off Doncaster Rovers

Three points for Gillingham, 1‑0 the final word against Doncaster Rovers in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings5 Mar 2035

Aidan Elliott-Wheeler was immovable

19 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings5 Mar 2035

Steven Evans stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.90 on the card, and the Gillingham support went home talking about one name.

In brief