James Brophy

Left Midfielder - Cambridge United
29 Sep 2026
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9 Edition

The Cambridge United Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Sep 2026

A fracture rules Louis Appéré out for 88 days

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

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Ben Knight

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Cambridge United

Dan Butler 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.

In brief

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The Cambridge United Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Sep 2026

A fracture rules Louis Appéré out for 104 days

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

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

James Brophy runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A move Jenson Jones would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jenson Jones is living that version at Cambridge United, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match12 Sep 2026

No end in sight to Cambridge United's wait for a win

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

Squad14 Sep 2026

Shayne Lavery 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Dominic Ball 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.

Market14 Sep 2026

Cambridge United and Dan Butler 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.

Match12 Sep 2026

Cambridge United share the spoils with Grimsby Town

A 2‑2 draw with Grimsby Town leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Market14 Sep 2026

Cambridge United buy the years ahead of Jenson Jones

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

3 Edition

The Cambridge United Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Cambridge United

Dan Butler 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Shayne Lavery 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Sullay Kaikai 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Dan Butler has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Cambridge United know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Cambridge United 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

No goals between Cambridge United and Milton Keynes Dons

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Milton Keynes Dons will be the happier side with the point.

In brief