The Stevenage Post
Match19 Dec 2026
Chem Campbell’s goal not enough for Stevenage
Chem Campbell scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Peterborough United, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Stevenage
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Liam Gibbs was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Alex Matos 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Steven Roberts answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
One moment undoes Liam Gibbs
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Liam Gibbs is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Looking ahead21 Dec 2026
Jamie Reid goes back to face Mansfield Town
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Jamie Reid’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Stevenage needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Chem Campbell finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Stevenage have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Dan Sweeney has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Stevenage 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.
In brief
- Squad Jovan Malcolm wants out of the dugout
- Squad Jordan Houghton wants to know why he earns less
- Player ratings Chem Campbell runs at them all day