The Notts County Courier
Match3 Nov 2026
Notts County out of the cup
West Ham United ended it 0‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad9 Nov 2026
James Belshaw keeps Notts County in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match9 Nov 2026
Notts County are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 25 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Maziar Kouhyar: 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.” Notts County have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Notts County
Harald Nilsen Tangen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Matthew Dennis 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Ollie Norburn
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match7 Nov 2026
Daniel Kanu rescues a point for Notts County
It needed Daniel Kanu to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Crawley Town, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Conor Grant runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Market Conor Grant is free to find somewhere else
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Archie Collins