Daniel Reid

Central Defender - Chesterfield U20
6 Aug 2035
Monday
Process

Marked for Daniel Reid

410 Edition

The Chesterfield Courier

5 Jun 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Reid

19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chesterfield lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom

Chesterfield put Interim Coach on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market

Teddie Bloomfield puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Chesterfield, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Ivan Tolkachev is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Chesterfield is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Chesterfield

Zach Hemming 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.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Chesterfield

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Squad

Jack Senior 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Shane Nti

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.34, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Jack Senior dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

Back issues
409 Edition

The Chesterfield Courier

29 May 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Chesterfield

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Reid

26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chesterfield lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Ignat Pranovich is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Chesterfield is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Zach Hemming 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 Chesterfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Chesterfield training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shane Nti 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Zach Hemming

“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.

In brief

408 Edition

The Chesterfield Courier

22 May 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Reid

33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chesterfield lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Tempers go at Chesterfield

Zach Hemming 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

Shane Nti 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

Barnsley take the points off Chesterfield

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

The team sheet said everything about Jack Senior

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Jack Senior.

Market

The Zach Hemming talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Chesterfield know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

407 Edition

The Chesterfield Courier

15 May 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Chesterfield spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Reid

40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chesterfield lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Only the photograph left for James Dadge

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. James Dadge will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Chesterfield the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words at Chesterfield training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jack Senior 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.

Match

Giuseppe Felici the difference as Chesterfield beat Doncaster Rovers

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Giuseppe Felici. 2‑1 against Doncaster Rovers, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Boardroom

131% of the income goes out in wages at Chesterfield

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Player ratings

Bailey Hobson was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.12. 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.

Player ratings

Shane Nti in the eights

A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Serafim Chekhlov 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 Chesterfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief