The Stoke City Courier
Squad28 May 2029
Jack McGlynn 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.
Squad28 May 2029
Words exchanged at Stoke City
Harry Leonard and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market28 May 2029
The Jack McGlynn story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Jack McGlynn signs something — a contract at Stoke City or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market28 May 2029
Stoke City put Nathan Lowe up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Nathan Lowe may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
The dugout28 May 2029
Luca Bombino knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Luca Bombino trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout28 May 2029
Sorba Thomas has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Sorba Thomas has written the date down.
In brief
- The dugout Ben Wilmot keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Bae Jun-Ho is the talk of the training ground
- Squad Jacob Cunningham is fit again