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144 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad30 Apr 2029

Jack Smith damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.

Squad30 Apr 2029

A fracture rules Peter Foster out for 20 days

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

Match28 Apr 2029

The wait goes on for Peterborough United

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad30 Apr 2029

Tempers go at Peterborough United

Anselmo García Mac Nulty 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.

Player ratings30 Apr 2029

Nobody could get near Matthew Garbett

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad30 Apr 2029

Matteo Cotali 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.

The dugout30 Apr 2029

Matteo Cotali left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Matteo Cotali will call it something else in private.

Player ratings30 Apr 2029

Nobody on the pitch touched Rhys Williams

7.55, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Peterborough United had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout30 Apr 2029

The form table has caught Matteo Cotali

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

Back issues
143 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

23 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad23 Apr 2029

Jack Smith damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 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.

Squad23 Apr 2029

27 days out for Peter Foster after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Peterborough United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match21 Apr 2029

6 matches without a win for Peterborough United

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Peterborough United are no longer polite ones.

Squad23 Apr 2029

Will Dennis 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 Peterborough United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings23 Apr 2029

James Dornelly ran the middle of the pitch — 7.72

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 12 combined actions and a mark of 7.72, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

The dugout23 Apr 2029

Will Dennis gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad23 Apr 2029

A row about effort at Peterborough United

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rio Adébísí was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match21 Apr 2029

Late, late show earns Peterborough United a point

Minute 88, against Leyton Orient, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

Player ratings23 Apr 2029

Cian Hayes beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

116 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Oct 2028

26 days out for George Bucknor after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Peterborough United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Gregorio Blanco: 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.” Peterborough United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad16 Oct 2028

Tempers go at Peterborough United

Anselmo García Mac Nulty 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.

Match14 Oct 2028

A bad afternoon for Peterborough United against Rotherham United

0‑2 to Rotherham United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market16 Oct 2028

Jack Smith steps up from the Peterborough United academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jack Smith 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.

Market16 Oct 2028

Paul Butler steps up from the Peterborough United academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Paul Butler 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.

Market16 Oct 2028

One of our own: Daniel Watson joins the Peterborough United first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Watson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market16 Oct 2028

One of our own: Nicholas Martin joins the Peterborough United first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nicholas Martin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Player ratings16 Oct 2028

Ethan Williams beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief