Marked for Damian Overmeyer
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.07 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match14 Nov 2026
It had gone 8 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Mailson Lima and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match14 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Mouad El Fanis’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hibernians.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match14 Nov 2026
Hibernians settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Tarxien Rainbows spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Market16 Nov 2026
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Mailson Lima beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Hibernians
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dexter Xuereb was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Hibernians's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hibernians has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets9 Nov 2026
Everything was agreed with another club and then the doctor spoke. Hibernians have walked away from a signing on the advice of somebody who never saw him play, which is how it is supposed to work.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ryder Matos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market9 Nov 2026
A stepping stone, not a home, for Comfort Ngubo
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Hibernians were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Damian Overmeyer and Hibernians agree another 3 years.
Match9 Nov 2026
Halfway: Hibernians sit in position 8
12 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
Match7 Nov 2026
Level with 89 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Hibernians had all but put away. Zabbar St. Patrick will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
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Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
There were 9 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Hibernians
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lungisani Mncwabe has just signed for Hibernians, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets2 Nov 2026
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Matteo Cardinali and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Floriana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lungisani Mncwabe and Hibernians agree another 3 years.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
105% of the income goes out in wages at Hibernians
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.