Peter Spencer

Right Midfielder - Crystal Palace
2 Aug 2043
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The Crystal Palace Courier

6 Jul 2043
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad6 Jul 2043

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jhon Solís

123 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Crystal Palace lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market6 Jul 2043

Julian Lainer asks to leave Crystal Palace

“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.

Boardroom6 Jul 2043

Alessandro Rizza has agreed to leave Crystal Palace for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Market6 Jul 2043

Alessandro Rizza has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Crystal Palace they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad6 Jul 2043

Real improvement from Peter Spencer at Crystal Palace

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Peter Spencer is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad6 Jul 2043

Alexander Spencer 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.

Squad6 Jul 2043

Mingiyan Badmaev 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 Crystal Palace this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom6 Jul 2043

Crystal Palace sign 8 boys into the academy

None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.

Boardroom6 Jul 2043

Crystal Palace sign a deal worth $2.9M a year

Commercial news is the news nobody sings about and everything else is paid for with. The board will call it a partnership; the accountants will call it the difference between this squad and a smaller one.

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The Leeds United Courier

9 Sep 2041
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad9 Sep 2041

A one-man rearguard from Robin Roefs

There were 11 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings9 Sep 2041

Vinnie Hayward, 33, rolls back the years — 8.21

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.21 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad9 Sep 2041

Tempers go at Leeds United

Robin Roefs 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.

Squad9 Sep 2041

Ibrahim Coulibaly stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ibrahim Coulibaly and Leeds United agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad9 Sep 2041

Words at Leeds United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bashir Humphreys 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.

Market9 Sep 2041

Steven Bailey raises the bar for Leeds United

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Leeds United heard it as anything else.

Match7 Sep 2041

Honours even between Leeds United and Burnley

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings9 Sep 2041

The one thing Steven Bailey could not do

Shots: 8, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Player ratings9 Sep 2041

Nobody could get near Louie Barry

Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief