Simon Murphy

Goalkeeper - Charlton Athletic
29 Feb 2032
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277 Edition

The Manchester City Gazette

17 Nov 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings17 Nov 2031

Nobody could get near Endrick

Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match15 Nov 2031

15 unbeaten for Manchester City

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 15 matches without defeat is a foundation Manchester City did not have in the autumn.

Squad17 Nov 2031

A fracture rules Timothy Castagne out for 72 days

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

Squad17 Nov 2031

Zion Suzuki: 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.” Manchester City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad17 Nov 2031

Jérémy Doku 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 Manchester City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Nov 2031

Words at Manchester City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Omar Marmoush 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.

Market17 Nov 2031

Finley Grigg has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Manchester City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match15 Nov 2031

The run at home goes on for Manchester City

8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Loan watch17 Nov 2031

Simon Murphy counts the days

“I watch every Manchester City game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Charlton Athletic runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

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The Charlton Athletic Gazette

29 Sep 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings29 Sep 2031

Tyreece Campbell runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad29 Sep 2031

Lloyd Jones 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 Charlton Athletic this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match27 Sep 2031

6 unbeaten for Charlton Athletic

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Charlton Athletic did not have in the autumn.

Squad29 Sep 2031

Charlie Kelman 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.

Squad29 Sep 2031

Too much change too quickly at Charlton Athletic

8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad29 Sep 2031

Simon Murphy 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.

Market29 Sep 2031

The Tyreece Campbell story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tyreece Campbell signs something — a contract at Charlton Athletic or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Match27 Sep 2031

Charlton Athletic and Coventry City cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Coventry City came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Market29 Sep 2031

Lyndon Dykes runs his contract down

1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Charlton Athletic money.

In brief

270 Edition

The Manchester City Gazette

29 Sep 2031
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match27 Sep 2031

Erling Haaland leads the rout of Norwich City

3‑0, and Erling Haaland took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Manchester City tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings29 Sep 2031

Erling Haaland scores twice — 9.23

Two goals and a mark of 9.23 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match27 Sep 2031

Manchester City cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad29 Sep 2031

Tempers go at Manchester City

Jérémy Doku 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.

Match27 Sep 2031

Manchester City keep winning on the road

5 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Market29 Sep 2031

Only the photograph left for Michael Allen

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Michael Allen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Manchester City the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad29 Sep 2031

The manager makes an example of Omar Marmoush

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad29 Sep 2031

Words at Manchester City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Savinho 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.

Player ratings29 Sep 2031

Jérémy Doku was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.64. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

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