The Burton Albion Sentinel
Market7 Sep 2026
Nick Akoto asks to leave Burton Albion
“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.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Burton Albion
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Burton Albion are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a goal for Burton Albion
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Burton Albion
Oumar Diouf 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Burton Albion and Tyrese Shade are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Match5 Sep 2026
No goals between Burton Albion and Stevenage
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Stevenage will be the happier side with the point.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jason Sraha knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burton Albion, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A season on the outside for Oumar Diouf
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Burton Albion has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Tyrese Shade
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Squad The plan did not have a place for Louie Moulden
- Player ratings The referee tires of Toby Sibbick