The Burton Albion Sentinel
Market12 Feb 2035
The Norwich City deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Jaime Parra reports back to Burton Albion with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad12 Feb 2035
6 saves: Jaime Parra 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.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2035
Deadline beats Burton Albion to Paulo Iago
The clock did what Sunderland would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad12 Feb 2035
Words exchanged at Burton Albion
Sigurd Kvile 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.
Market12 Feb 2035
Robbie Meakin is a Burton Albion player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad12 Feb 2035
Mathieu Marchal gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Mathieu Marchal has just signed for Burton Albion, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2035
Burton Albion rebuffed over Aiham Dahche
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stockport County have kept their man, and Burton Albion go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad12 Feb 2035
Eero Lehto 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.
The dugout12 Feb 2035
Kai Brosnan 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.
In brief
- Match A bad afternoon for Burton Albion against Leicester City
- Looking ahead The big one: Chesterfield come into view
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Nick Oyekunle