Adrian Bell

Left Midfielder - Western Sydney Wanderers
20 Aug 2028
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Marked for Adrian Bell

78 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match19 Jan 2028

Western Sydney Wanderers march on in the cup

Melbourne Victory are out and Western Sydney Wanderers go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Lawrence Thomas is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Lawrence Thomas: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Market24 Jan 2028

Josh Brillante asks to leave Western Sydney Wanderers

“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.

Match22 Jan 2028

No end in sight to Western Sydney Wanderers's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Western Sydney Wanderers has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings24 Jan 2028

A defender's goal wins it for Western Sydney Wanderers — 7.74

1 for Josh Brillante, marked 7.74, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Player ratings24 Jan 2028

Adrian Bell runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout24 Jan 2028

Lachlan Wales frozen out at Western Sydney Wanderers

This is not rotation. Lachlan Wales has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Western Sydney Wanderers is pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets24 Jan 2028

Marlon van de Wetering due for a Western Sydney Wanderers medical

Everything agreed with Auckland FC, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Tempers go at Western Sydney Wanderers

Angus Thurgate 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.

In brief

Back issues
66 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings1 Nov 2027

Both of them Elliot Collier's — 8.61

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.61, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match30 Oct 2027

Western Sydney Wanderers make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Western Sydney Wanderers have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Angus Thurgate 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 Western Sydney Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match30 Oct 2027

Elliot Collier sends Western Sydney Wanderers past Brisbane Roar

It finished 2‑0, and it was Elliot Collier’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Western Sydney Wanderers.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Western Sydney Wanderers count the cost of losing Dean White

52 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Germán Ferreyra 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.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Adrian Bell stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Adrian Bell and Western Sydney Wanderers agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout1 Nov 2027

Kane Grant has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Kane Grant on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout1 Nov 2027

When it matters, Brandon Borrello plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

65 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout25 Oct 2027

Lachlan Wales: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Western Sydney Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad25 Oct 2027

Lawrence Thomas keeps Western Sydney Wanderers in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom25 Oct 2027

Kane Grant signs on for the long haul

Western Sydney Wanderers moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Kane Grant, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.

Squad25 Oct 2027

Tempers go at Western Sydney Wanderers

Angus Thurgate 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.

Boardroom25 Oct 2027

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Western Sydney Wanderers

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.

The terraces25 Oct 2027

One of their own: Bongani Mphela

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match23 Oct 2027

Western Sydney Wanderers find a way past Melbourne Victory

Melbourne Victory made Western Sydney Wanderers work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Market25 Oct 2027

Oliver McGrath steps up from the Western Sydney Wanderers academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Oliver McGrath 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.

Market25 Oct 2027

Mitchell Morgan steps up from the Western Sydney Wanderers academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mitchell Morgan 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.

In brief