The Stevenage Post
Match16 Sep 2026
Cup progress for Stevenage
A 1‑0 win over Mansfield Town, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Jacob Kelly could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.92
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.92, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Match16 Sep 2026
Stevenage win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 103th minute. Mansfield Town will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Chem Campbell 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 Stevenage this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Alfie Thornett at Stevenage
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Alfie Thornett is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Alfie Whiteman 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 terraces21 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Edward Cook
At 14 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Stevenage against Barnsley
0‑1 to Barnsley, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Jovan Malcolm runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Louis Thompson
- Player ratings Nothing got past Jasper Pattenden
- Player ratings Phoenix Patterson ran the game