George Wright

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The Wrexham Courier

27 Mar 2034
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Danny Imray damages knee ligaments — 47 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 47 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Davis Keillor-Dunn yet — 7.91

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.91 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Tempers go at Wrexham

Gustavo Sá 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.

Squad

Ben Sheaf 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.

Match

Wrexham see off Crystal Palace

Three points for Wrexham, 1‑0 the final word against Crystal Palace in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Dujuan Richards

Marked 8.32 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Wrexham keep their word to Dujuan Richards

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Market

The Jacques Ekomié question follows Wrexham around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jacques Ekomié’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Player ratings

Nosa Obaretin was immovable

10 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.

In brief