The Debrief - Chester need a striker SOS after Worksop loss, as McIntyre 'livid'
Goal-shy Blues fall to a 1-0 defeat at home to Worksop Town at the Deva Stadium
It’s hard to know which was the more pressing need after watching that; my need for a stiff drink or Chester’s need for a player who can put the ball in the back of the net.
Three defeats from four over the festive period was, as Jez from Peep Show might have quipped, “not very Christmassy”. The four games have all been wildly different, with each showing different versions of this Chester side, some good, some absolutely awful.
Let’s have this right from the off. There isn’t an acceptable way to fall to defeat against a newly-promoted Worksop Town in the National League North when you are Chester. You can make the excuses for it and provide some more context around it, but sometimes the job just has to get done, as it was on Tuesday evening against Macclesfield.
A goal from Aaron Martin on 33 minutes at the Deva Stadium for the first game of 2026 was enough to hand the Nottinghamshire club all three points against the Blues. A Chester win would have moved them level with the play-off places, but that feels like a sentence that has been said a few times now, and something will need to change soon if Chester and the play-offs are to be mentioned in the same sentence when we head into the business end of this very frustrating campaign.
