Callum Lang

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Preston
27 Nov 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Callum Lang

12 Edition

The Preston Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Callum Lang: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Preston have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at Preston

Ammar Ramadan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Birmingham take the points off Preston

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

A row about effort at Preston

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jordan Storey was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Steven James answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Preston keep their word to Johnny Kenny

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Player ratings

Miloš Luković was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 12. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market

The Harry Clarke question follows Preston around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Harry Clarke’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Player ratings

The one thing Andrew Moran could not do

Shots: 5, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Preston Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Miloš Luković, 20, steals the show — 7.68

Marked 7.68 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Marvin Kaleta

Preston asked and Rotherham United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Preston training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jordan Storey 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Pol Valentín

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 90 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Preston had all but put away. Blackburn Rovers will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Match

Preston share the spoils with Blackburn Rovers

A 1‑1 draw with Blackburn Rovers leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

The form table has caught Alfie Devine

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

Steven James: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Lewis Dobbin

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against West Bromwich Albion in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief