The Notts County Courier
Squad26 Nov 2035
Matthew Dennis damages knee ligaments — 78 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 78 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.
Squad26 Nov 2035
Emilio Lawrence 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 Notts County this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Nov 2035
Nick Tsaroulla 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.
Squad26 Nov 2035
Notts County lose George Pearson
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings26 Nov 2035
Emilio Lawrence takes the honours
Marked 7.74 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Notts County had the best player on the pitch.
Player ratings26 Nov 2035
Nothing got past Souza
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 14 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Alao Dabani
- Market The Emilio Lawrence question follows Notts County around
- Match Notts County draw a blank against Charlton Athletic