Marked for Ilias Bronkhorst
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market17 Jan 2028
Ben Barclay hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Huddersfield Town can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 Jan 2028
José Sá 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 Huddersfield Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Thierno Barry 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.
Match15 Jan 2028
0‑1 to Derby County, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Dânio Djassi 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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Ilias Bronkhorst dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings17 Jan 2028
Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Jan 2028
Marcel Ulmer signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad20 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Jordan Graham out for 36 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Huddersfield Town will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Huddersfield Town — 7.76
1 for Ilias Bronkhorst, marked 7.76, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Mario Perlingieri is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Yasin Ayari 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 Huddersfield Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Sep 2027
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 terraces20 Sep 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Bobby Wales has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
The afternoon belonged to Patric
7.67, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Huddersfield Town had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Crisis
Squad6 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Jordan Graham out for 50 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Huddersfield Town will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dânio Djassi is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Will Alves runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad6 Sep 2027
José Sá 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 Huddersfield Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Thierno Barry 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.
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Uneasy
Market14 Jun 2027
Middlesbrough pay $3.9M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Will Alves is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Craig Dawson 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 Huddersfield Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Murray Wallace: 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.” Huddersfield Town have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tyrell Malacia was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Huddersfield Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcus McGuane 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.
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
0‑3 against Queens Park Rangers, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match10 Oct 2026
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Huddersfield Town are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Huddersfield Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Craig Dawson 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ilias Bronkhorst, and the manager let it.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ryan Hardie dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
Everybody has an opinion about Jak Alnwick
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
Michael Onyeka damages knee ligaments — 22 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 22 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Huddersfield Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Craig Dawson 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match29 Aug 2026
Fulham left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
416 appearances across 15 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market3 Aug 2026
St. Gallen come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Huddersfield Town did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ilias Bronkhorst was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Huddersfield Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcus McGuane 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Peter Thomas again, and this time the name on the line is Burnley. Huddersfield Town are listening politely and promising nothing.