Peter Clark

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Gillingham U20
17 Mar 2036
Monday
Process

Marked for Peter Clark

465 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

25 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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 ratings

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.

Market

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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

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464 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

18 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

13 matches without a win for Gillingham

The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Gillingham are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A fracture rules Jérémy Petris out for 67 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.

Squad

Peter Clark damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Gillingham

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Pedro Naressi 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.

Squad

Nelson Khumbeni 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 Gillingham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

AFC Wimbledon join the queue for Thom Markus Tesdal

Add another name to the list: AFC Wimbledon have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Thom Markus Tesdal. The answer from Gillingham has not changed — yet.

Match

Burton Albion take the points off Gillingham

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

Crawley Town expected to open talks for Daniel Vanderpuye

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Gillingham will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

463 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

11 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Gillingham's wait for a win

12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Gillingham has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A fracture rules Jérémy Petris out for 74 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.

Squad

Peter Clark damages knee ligaments — 30 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 30 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.

Match

Gillingham taken apart

0‑3 to AFC Wimbledon, 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.

Match

Gillingham sink to position 22

44 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

Jérémy Petris keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gillingham may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Seb Palmer-Houlden runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Szymon Klich hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gillingham can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A move Benjamin Stewart would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Benjamin Stewart is living that version at Gillingham, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief

462 Edition

The Gillingham Herald

4 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Jérémy Petris out for 81 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.

Match

No end in sight to Gillingham's wait for a win

11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Gillingham has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Peter Clark damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 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.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Gillingham

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Gillingham is running low.

Boardroom

Interim Coach has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Gillingham can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Thom Markus Tesdal hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gillingham can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Santiago Colombatti stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Santiago Colombatti and Gillingham agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Pedro Naressi 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.

Match

Bristol City take the points off Gillingham

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief