Toby Sibbick

Central Defender - Burton Albion
29 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Toby Sibbick

6 Edition

The Burton Albion Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

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.

Match

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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

Back issues
5 Edition

The Burton Albion Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Alex Bannon 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.

Squad

Tyrese Shade 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 Burton Albion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Burton Albion

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Match

A bad afternoon for Burton Albion against Wigan Athletic

0‑1 to Wigan Athletic, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Udoka Godwin-Malife 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

Nobody could get near Tyrese Shade

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Burton Albion pick somebody else ahead of Kain Adom

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.

Squad

A wage question at Burton Albion

Charlie Webster has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

Player ratings

A day to forget for Udoka Godwin-Malife

Marked 5.80, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief