The Gillingham Herald
Match23 Jun 2035
The wait goes on for Gillingham
14 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad25 Jun 2035
A fracture rules Jérémy Petris out for 60 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gillingham will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Peter Clark damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 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.
Match23 Jun 2035
Chastening afternoon for Gillingham
A 0‑4 beating by Walsall was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Player ratings25 Jun 2035
Seb Palmer-Houlden runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market25 Jun 2035
Daniel Vanderpuye asks to leave Gillingham
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match23 Jun 2035
The goals have deserted Gillingham
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Gillingham can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Words at Gillingham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Naressi 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.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Tempers go at Gillingham
Víctor Barrionuevo 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.
In brief
- Boardroom Inquest at Gillingham
- Market AFC Wimbledon expected to open talks for Thom Markus Tesdal
- Market The Seb Palmer-Houlden question follows Gillingham around