Jonathan Hamilton

Striker - Sheffield U20
6 Oct 2047
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jonathan Hamilton

1049 Edition

The Sheffield Herald

3 Sep 2046
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Giorgi Chakvetadze

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

Match

Sheffield turn it around against Bolton Wanderers

Going 2 down does something to a side, and what it usually does is finish them. Not here. Sheffield rebuilt the afternoon goal by goal, and Bolton Wanderers had no answer to any of it.

Squad

A fracture rules Filip Mladenovic out for 41 days

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

Squad

George Gryba stays put

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

Squad

Real improvement from Jonathan Hamilton at Sheffield

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jonathan Hamilton is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Sheffield

5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Match

Sheffield find a way past Bolton Wanderers

Bolton Wanderers made Sheffield work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Enrique Reyes at his very best

Marked 8.82. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Sheffield.

Player ratings

One of those days for Christopher Spencer

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

Back issues
1045 Edition

The Sheffield Herald

6 Aug 2046
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Giorgi Chakvetadze damages knee ligaments — 52 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 52 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Filip Mladenovic out for 73 days

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

Squad

Real improvement from Jonathan Hamilton at Sheffield

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jonathan Hamilton is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

In brief

1038 Edition

The Sheffield Herald

18 Jun 2046
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Sheffield spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Sheffield

Position 18 and 22 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad

Henry Edwards keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Jonathan Hamilton gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jonathan Hamilton has just signed for Sheffield, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Words at Sheffield training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christopher Spencer 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

Filip Mladenovic stays put

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

In brief