Andrew Wright

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12 Dec 2040
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Marked for Andrew Wright

721 Edition

The San Jose Earthquakes Sentinel

21 May 2040
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Ángel Vázquez out for 115 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Jose Earthquakes will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Cruel end for Real Salt Lake as San Jose Earthquakes pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. San Jose Earthquakes scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Jesús Hakanson yet — 8.19

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.19 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Reid Roberts 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

San Jose Earthquakes see off Real Salt Lake

Three points for San Jose Earthquakes, 2‑1 the final word against Real Salt Lake in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Andrew Wright 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 San Jose Earthquakes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

Back issues
717 Edition

The San Jose Earthquakes Sentinel

23 Apr 2040
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Both of them Noel Buck's — 8.28

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.28, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Jesús Hakanson yet — 7.97

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.97 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

Cameron McKennie runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Gio Moore 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 San Jose Earthquakes can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Cameron Sargent signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cameron Sargent commits to San Jose Earthquakes for another 3 years.

Squad

Reid Roberts 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

San Jose Earthquakes get the job done against St. Louis CITY SC

A 3‑1 win over St. Louis CITY SC, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Andrew Wright

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Noel Buck named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Noel Buck has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

In brief

714 Edition

The San Jose Earthquakes Sentinel

2 Apr 2040
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Noel Buck, 35, rolls back the years — 8.09

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.09 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Words at San Jose Earthquakes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reid Roberts 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 San Jose Earthquakes

Andrew Wright 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Cameron Sargent

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cameron Sargent, and the manager let it.

Squad

A month that belonged to Paul Pulisic

The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at San Jose Earthquakes who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

Match

San Jose Earthquakes share the spoils with Portland Timbers

A 1‑1 draw with Portland Timbers leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

708 Edition

The San Jose Earthquakes Sentinel

20 Feb 2040
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kevin Rodríguez

40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Jose Earthquakes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

DC United watching Cameron Sargent

The interest is real enough to have reached print. San Jose Earthquakes have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Words at San Jose Earthquakes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reid Roberts 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.

In brief

698 Edition

The San Jose Earthquakes Sentinel

12 Dec 2039
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kevin Rodríguez

110 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Jose Earthquakes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Tempers go at San Jose Earthquakes

Reid Roberts 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.

Squad

Words at San Jose Earthquakes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ángel Vázquez 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.

In brief