Simon Jackson

Defensive Midfielder - Sheffield
16 Mar 2042
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793 Edition

The Sheffield Herald

7 Oct 2041
From our football correspondent Steady

Match5 Oct 2041

George Gryba leads the rout of Huddersfield Town

7‑0, and George Gryba took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Sheffield tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings7 Oct 2041

Both of them George Gryba's — 9.54

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.54, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings7 Oct 2041

Facundo Buonanotte scores twice — 8.18

Two goals and a mark of 8.18 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad7 Oct 2041

13 seasons of Rob Apter

633 appearances across 13 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Sheffield know what they have.

Player ratings7 Oct 2041

Lorenzo Menegazzo, 36, rolls back the years — 8.12

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.12 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match5 Oct 2041

7 goals as Sheffield and Huddersfield Town go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Sheffield and Huddersfield Town, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad7 Oct 2041

Lorenz Ferdinand signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lorenz Ferdinand and Sheffield agree another 2 years.

Squad7 Oct 2041

Massiremba Dramé 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 ratings7 Oct 2041

Ninety minutes of Lorenzo Paratici at his very best

Marked 8.08. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Sheffield.

In brief

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791 Edition

The Sheffield Herald

23 Sep 2041
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match21 Sep 2041

Sheffield taken apart

0‑3 to Newcastle United, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match21 Sep 2041

Sheffield are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 7 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Squad23 Sep 2041

Massiremba Dramé 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 Sheffield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad23 Sep 2041

Words at Sheffield training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hubert Zwoźny 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.

Boardroom23 Sep 2041

Doors closed at Sheffield

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad23 Sep 2041

Simon Jackson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Simon Jackson commits to Sheffield for another 3 years.

Boardroom23 Sep 2041

Sheffield counting the cost

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

Squad23 Sep 2041

The manager makes an example of Enrique Reyes

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings23 Sep 2041

Richard Friedrich runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

771 Edition

The Sheffield Herald

6 May 2041
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad6 May 2041

Rob Apter breaks a bone — 144 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 144 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad6 May 2041

Benjamin Martin is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Sheffield will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Squad6 May 2041

Simon Jackson says Sheffield 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.

In brief

749 Edition

The Sheffield Herald

3 Dec 2040
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad3 Dec 2040

A knee injury of the worst kind for Frederik Petersen

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

Squad3 Dec 2040

A fracture rules Filippo Frison out for 137 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sheffield will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad3 Dec 2040

Timothy Palmer says Sheffield 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.

Player ratings3 Dec 2040

Age has not caught Facundo Buonanotte yet — 7.82

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.82 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad3 Dec 2040

Rob Apter signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rob Apter commits to Sheffield for another 2 years.

Match1 Dec 2040

Sheffield see off Nottingham Forest

Three points for Sheffield, 2‑1 the final word against Nottingham Forest in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief