Marked for Allan Ackra
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 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 Clermont Foot this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Clermont Foot training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kader Bamba 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Famara Diédhiou. 2‑1 against AS Nancy, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Axel Camblan 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Allan Ackra and Clermont Foot agree another 4 years.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 7.85 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Clermont Foot had the best player on the pitch.
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Uneasy
Match18 Nov 2026
Olympique Lyonnais go through and Clermont Foot go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Théo Guivarch: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match21 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Clermont Foot's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Clermont Foot has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Clermont Foot may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad23 Nov 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 Clermont Foot this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
The kick that got away from Johan Gastien
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.98 on the card, and the Clermont Foot support went home talking about one name.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Clermont Foot training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ousmane Diop 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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Steady
Squad28 Sep 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 Clermont Foot this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Clermont Foot training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kader Bamba 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
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Clermont Foot training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kader Bamba 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Johan Gastien 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.
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 27, 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Yoann Salmier, 33, rolls back the years — 8.04
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.04 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Axel Camblan 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 Clermont Foot this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Aug 2026
Théo Ramousse has left for Valenciennes in a $240.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Axel Camblan 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Tours made Clermont Foot work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Clermont Foot training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ousmane Diop 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ousmane Diop, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
Théo Ramousse 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 Clermont Foot can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 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 Clermont Foot this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Kader Bamba 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maïdine Douane, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Johan Gastien 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.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market10 Aug 2026
FC Metz come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Clermont Foot did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Théo Guivarch and Clermont Foot agree another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Théo Guivarch 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Anis El Ghzizal, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
15 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Point won or two lost for Clermont Foot?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Dijon? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.