The Barrow AFC Post
Market20 Aug 2035
Only the photograph left for Daniel Richardson
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Richardson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Barrow AFC the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad20 Aug 2035
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.
Boardroom20 Aug 2035
Graduation day at Barrow AFC
6 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad20 Aug 2035
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.
Market20 Aug 2035
One of our own: Stephen Henderson joins the Barrow AFC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stephen Henderson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market20 Aug 2035
Joseph Walker steps up from the Barrow AFC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Joseph Walker has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market20 Aug 2035
Steven Wright steps up from the Barrow AFC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Steven Wright has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Match18 Aug 2035
Barrow AFC get the job done against Accrington Stanley
A 1‑0 win over Accrington Stanley, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings20 Aug 2035
Ninety minutes of Kenny Assignon at his very best
Marked 8.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Barrow AFC.
In brief
- Boardroom A promise the Barrow AFC board did not keep
- Player ratings Maksym Pietrzak runs at them all day
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Barrow AFC