Liam Smith

Right Midfielder - Tranmere Rovers U18
30 Dec 2029
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116 Edition

The Tranmere Rovers Gazette

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match14 Oct 2028

Tranmere Rovers win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 91th minute. Port Vale will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Squad16 Oct 2028

6 saves: Jack Porter was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad16 Oct 2028

Words exchanged at Tranmere Rovers

Luke McGee 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.

Squad16 Oct 2028

A row about effort at Tranmere Rovers

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Josh Nichols was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces16 Oct 2028

One of their own: Jack Porter

He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match14 Oct 2028

Charlie Whitaker the difference as Tranmere Rovers beat Port Vale

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Charlie Whitaker. 1‑0 against Port Vale, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings16 Oct 2028

One of those days for Charlie Whitaker

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.06, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad16 Oct 2028

Tranmere Rovers count the cost of losing Liam Smith

28 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings16 Oct 2028

Joe Ward runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
115 Edition

The Tranmere Rovers Gazette

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces9 Oct 2028

Anger at Tranmere Rovers 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.

The dugout9 Oct 2028

Malick Sylla says Tranmere Rovers went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad9 Oct 2028

Charlie Whitaker signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Charlie Whitaker and Tranmere Rovers agree another 3 years.

Squad9 Oct 2028

A falling-out at Tranmere Rovers

Luke McGee and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad9 Oct 2028

Josh Nichols 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.

Match7 Oct 2028

Jevan Beattie’s goal not enough for Tranmere Rovers

Jevan Beattie scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Newport County, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout9 Oct 2028

No hiding place for Joe Ward

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joe Ward, and the manager let it.

Market9 Oct 2028

Tranmere Rovers promote Peter Reid from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Peter Reid has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market9 Oct 2028

One of our own: Joseph Wilson joins the Tranmere Rovers first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Joseph Wilson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief