Luke Garbutt

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28 Sep 2026
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Marked for Luke Garbutt

8 Edition

The Salford City Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Fabio Borini damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 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

Salford City bow out of the cup

Charlton Athletic go through and Salford City go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Match

The wait goes on for Salford City

7 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kadeem Harris

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Salford City

Luke Garbutt 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 Salford City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ben Woodburn 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

Yannick Häringer gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

One moment undoes Oliver Turton

There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Luke Garbutt

7.34, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Salford City had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Salford City Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Fabio Borini damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 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

No end in sight to Salford City's wait for a win

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

Squad

Words at Salford City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dru Yearwood 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.

Match

Salford City cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kadeem Harris

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Luke Garbutt was the difference for Salford City

Marked 7.36. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad

Salford City pick somebody else ahead of Kallum Cesay

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Match

Salford City and Swindon Town cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Swindon Town came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Squad

Yannick Häringer asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

3 Edition

The Salford City Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

1 academy players handed senior numbers at Salford City

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Luke Garbutt 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 Salford City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Salford City promote Daniel Fisher from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Fisher has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kadeem Harris

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Kallum Cesay gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Salford City lose Harvey Corrigan

33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Boardroom

Salford City turn down the training-ground plan

It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.

Market

Experience through the door at Salford City

Yannick Häringer arrives at 37 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Match

Salford City and Newport County cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Newport County came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief