Solomon James

Left Back - Montana
15 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Solomon James

11 Edition

The Montana Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nikola Krajinović runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

A brace, and Mats Lillebo takes the afternoon — 8.03

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mats Lillebo provided it, and the 8.03 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Tempers go at Montana

Mats Lillebo 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.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Montana

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Étienne Camara 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.

Match

Montana get the job done against Lokomotiv Plovdiv

A 2‑1 win over Lokomotiv Plovdiv, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Montana Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Montana

10 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Jorginho Soares out for 19 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Montana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Montana

Position 14 and 6 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Solomon James delivers — 7.34

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Solomon James scored, was marked 7.34, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Tempers go at Montana

Mats Lillebo 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

Nikola Krajinović 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.

Player ratings

Nikola Krajinović runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Dimitar Burov 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.

Match

Honours even between Montana and Septemvri

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief