The Walsall Chronicle
Squad12 Jun 2034
Lamin Sillah 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 Walsall this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Jun 2034
Darko Gyabi 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.
Market12 Jun 2034
Talks stall between Walsall and Stevie Bausor
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Player ratings12 Jun 2034
Lewi Richards stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.55 on the card, and the Walsall support went home talking about one name.
Squad12 Jun 2034
Walsall pick somebody else ahead of Tom Davies
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Market12 Jun 2034
Charlton Athletic expected to open talks for Miller Megson
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Walsall will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad12 Jun 2034
When it matters, Alex Hartridge 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.
Match10 Jun 2034
Walsall and Gillingham cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Gillingham came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market12 Jun 2034
The Tom Davies talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Walsall know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Armando Shashoua
- Market Alexander Phillips leaves for nothing
- Boardroom The Walsall production line keeps running