The Stevenage Post
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Chem Campbell
Successful dribbles: 51. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Alfie Whiteman 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 Stevenage this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Daniel Phillips 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Alfie Whiteman
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alfie Whiteman, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Lewis Freestone
7.16, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Stevenage had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Market7 Sep 2026
Still no ink between Stevenage and Louis Thompson
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Stevenage, another week without a signature from Louis Thompson.
In brief
- Squad Teddy Bishop dropped after a run of poor form
- Match Stevenage draw a blank against Burton Albion
- Market Stevenage borrow Will Grainger
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Phoenix Patterson