The Chesterfield Courier
Market27 Sep 2032
Armando Dobra asks to leave Chesterfield
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad27 Sep 2032
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.
Squad27 Sep 2032
Armando Dobra 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.
Match25 Sep 2032
Chesterfield get the job done against Doncaster Rovers
A 1‑0 win over Doncaster Rovers, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad27 Sep 2032
Chesterfield lose John Cooper
37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings27 Sep 2032
Armando Dobra in the eights
A performance of 8.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad27 Sep 2032
Samuel Jones 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.
Market27 Sep 2032
The Anel Ahmedhodžić question follows Chesterfield around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Anel Ahmedhodžić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings27 Sep 2032
Teddie Bloomfield shuts the door
Defensive actions: 13, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
In brief
- Market Chesterfield put Dilan Markanday up for sale
- Player ratings Bailey Hobson changes it off the bench
- Player ratings Dilan Markanday runs at them all day