The Melita Chronicle
Match10 May 2027
Melita are in real trouble now
Position 14, 31 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market10 May 2027
Jesús Yépez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Melita they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Melita training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Borges 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Words exchanged at Melita
Jean Pierre Attard 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Dean Forbes is a square peg at Melita
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout10 May 2027
Gosef Mizzi 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.
The dugout10 May 2027
Eric Mensah knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Eric Mensah trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market10 May 2027
The Kevin Moreno story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kevin Moreno signs something — a contract at Melita or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market10 May 2027
Melita put Wilsinho up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Wilsinho may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
- Squad Kjire Novakov is finding his feet at Melita
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Josuael Azzopardi