The Chesterfield Courier
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Dylan Duffy runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Chesterfield
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Chesterfield are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tom Pearce 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 Chesterfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Chesterfield training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryan Stirk 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Ryan Stirk
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ryan Stirk, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Zach Hemming loses the armband
The captaincy has been taken off Zach Hemming. Chesterfield will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Chesterfield and Ryan Stirk
- Match Chesterfield and Grimsby Town cancel each other out
- Player ratings Armando Dobra ran the game
- Player ratings The referee tires of Kyle McFadzean