The Chesterfield Courier
Squad5 Jun 2034
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.
Boardroom5 Jun 2034
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.
Market5 Jun 2034
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 The request is on a desk at Chesterfield, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market5 Jun 2034
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.
Squad5 Jun 2034
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.
Boardroom5 Jun 2034
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.
Squad5 Jun 2034
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 ratings5 Jun 2034
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.
Squad5 Jun 2034
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
- Match Shane Nti rescues a point for Chesterfield
- Market Lee Bonis linked with a move away
- Player ratings Henry Brown runs at them all day