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484 Edition

The Salford City Gazette

5 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad5 Nov 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Thomas Walker

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

Player ratings5 Nov 2035

Jack Griffin scores twice — 8.84

Two goals and a mark of 8.84 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings5 Nov 2035

Anton Tankovic, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.94

A mark of 7.94 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market5 Nov 2035

Liam Oakes is on his way

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

Match3 Nov 2035

Salford City make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Salford City have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad5 Nov 2035

Adam Randell stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Adam Randell and Salford City agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad5 Nov 2035

Matt Ingram 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 Salford City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Nov 2035

Zach Awe 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.

Match3 Nov 2035

Jack Griffin sends Salford City past Bromley

It finished 2‑0, and it was Jack Griffin’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Salford City.

In brief

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483 Edition

The Salford City Gazette

29 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad29 Oct 2035

Thomas Walker damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings29 Oct 2035

Anton Tankovic, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.77

A mark of 7.77 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings29 Oct 2035

Ben Woodburn, 36, rolls back the years — 7.94

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.94 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad29 Oct 2035

Tempers go at Salford City

Adam Randell 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.

Match27 Oct 2035

6 unbeaten for Salford City

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Salford City did not have in the autumn.

The terraces29 Oct 2035

The crowd has taken to Anton Tankovic

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match27 Oct 2035

Ben Woodburn sends Salford City past Barnet

It finished 1‑0, and it was Ben Woodburn’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Salford City.

Squad29 Oct 2035

Words at Salford City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Josh Austerfield 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.

Boardroom29 Oct 2035

97% of the income goes out in wages at Salford City

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.

In brief

482 Edition

The Salford City Gazette

22 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad22 Oct 2035

Thomas Walker damages knee ligaments — 29 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 29 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad22 Oct 2035

Zach Awe 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.

Match20 Oct 2035

Salford City get the job done against Bolton Wanderers

A 2‑1 win over Bolton Wanderers, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad22 Oct 2035

Tempers go at Salford City

Anton Tankovic 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.

Player ratings22 Oct 2035

Kirill Bogdanets in the eights

A performance of 8.61 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad22 Oct 2035

Ryan Graydon 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.

Market22 Oct 2035

The Zack Nelson story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Zack Nelson signs something — a contract at Salford City or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Player ratings22 Oct 2035

Jack Griffin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings22 Oct 2035

Adam Randell spends the afternoon fouling

Fouls conceded: 5. He was booked, he was fortunate not to be booked twice, and the referee had run out of patience long before the end.

In brief

481 Edition

The Salford City Gazette

15 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad15 Oct 2035

Thomas Walker damages knee ligaments — 38 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom15 Oct 2035

Salford City counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Salford City now.

Squad15 Oct 2035

Tempers go at Salford City

Matt Ingram 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.

Squad15 Oct 2035

Words at Salford City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zach Awe 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.

Squad15 Oct 2035

Salford City pick somebody else ahead of Priestley Farquharson

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.

Match13 Oct 2035

Salford City and Bristol Rovers cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Bristol Rovers came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief