The Chesterfield Courier
Match16 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Chesterfield
0‑2 against Reading, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match19 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Chesterfield
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Zach Hemming
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Zach Hemming 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Chesterfield training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Will Grigg 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Janoi Donacien
A mark of 7.23, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of John Fleck
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Luke Butterfield runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Sep 2026
Chesterfield and Colchester United cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Colchester United came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Chesterfield and Timothy Brown
- Player ratings Jamie Grimes spends the afternoon fouling
- Player ratings Seen enough of John Fleck