Dylan Duffy

Left Midfielder - Chesterfield
28 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Dylan Duffy

6 Edition

The Chesterfield Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Dylan Duffy runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

4 matches without a win for Chesterfield

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Chesterfield are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tom Pearce 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 Chesterfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Chesterfield training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryan Stirk 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Ryan Stirk

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ryan Stirk, and the manager let it.

Squad

Zach Hemming loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Zach Hemming. Chesterfield will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Chesterfield Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dylan Duffy

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Luke Butterfield puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Chesterfield, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Southampton watching Lee Bonis

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Chesterfield have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Tom Pearce 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 Chesterfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for Chesterfield against Swindon Town

1‑2 to Swindon Town, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Sil Swinkels 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

3 Edition

The Chesterfield Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Armando Dobra runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Chesterfield

Tom Pearce 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.

Squad

Lee Bonis 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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Janoi Donacien

7.02, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Chesterfield had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Boardroom

Chesterfield turn down the training-ground plan

It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.

Match

Chesterfield draw a blank against Walsall

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Walsall defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

The terraces

Supporters make their feelings known about Lee Bonis

The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Chesterfield would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.

Squad

The plan did not have a place for Chey Dunkley

Nobody at Chesterfield is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

Squad

A season on the outside for Dieguinho

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Chesterfield has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

In brief