The Barrow AFC Post
Squad21 Dec 2026
Connor Mahoney damages knee ligaments — 120 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 120 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Jens Hjertø-Dahl, 21, steals the show — 7.98
Marked 7.98 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Nobody could get near Gideon Kodua
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Barrow AFC
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Jens Hjertø-Dahl 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 Barrow AFC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Barrow AFC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Riquelme Thompson-Jones was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match19 Dec 2026
Barrow AFC refuse to lose to Chesterfield
A point taken on 89 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Ben Winterbottom signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ben Winterbottom and Barrow AFC agree another 3 years.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Jake Reeves 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.
In brief
- Match Barrow AFC and Chesterfield take a point apiece
- The dugout Kyle Bartley asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Alexander Cook: “We have to be better”