Marked for Caolan Boyd-Munce
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Sep 2026
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Caolan Boyd-Munce 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Laurie Shala is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Niall Huggins 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bradley Fink 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Cameron Gardner at 21 — 8.34
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Cameron Gardner did not need any: 8.34, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wycombe Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Wycombe Wanderers did not have in the autumn.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Edmund Baidoo 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad21 Sep 2026
13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Edmund Baidoo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Wycombe Wanderers will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Will Norris and Wycombe Wanderers agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wycombe Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Wycombe Wanderers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Niall Huggins 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Fin Back attracts admirers
The name of Fin Back has come up in conversations Wycombe Wanderers were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Wycombe Wanderers, another week without a signature from Caolan Boyd-Munce.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Caolan Boyd-Munce trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.