The Barrow AFC Post
Squad14 Jan 2036
Isaac Fletcher damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.
Squad14 Jan 2036
Tempers go at Barrow AFC
Beryly Lubala 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.
Squad14 Jan 2036
Tennai Watson 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.
Match12 Jan 2036
Barrow AFC see off Salford City
Three points for Barrow AFC, 1‑0 the final word against Salford City in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings14 Jan 2036
Afonso Leite in the eights
A performance of 8.47 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad14 Jan 2036
Afonso Leite is carrying Barrow AFC
7 goals and a season average of 7.29. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market14 Jan 2036
The Beryly Lubala story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Beryly Lubala signs something — a contract at Barrow AFC or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings14 Jan 2036
Nothing got past Kenny Assignon
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 8 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market14 Jan 2036
Barrow AFC put Pedro Gomes up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Pedro Gomes may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
- Market John Ross leaves for nothing
- Market Mark Bennett leaves for nothing
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Afonso Leite