Matthew Mparaganda

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144 Edition

The De Graafschap Post

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces30 Apr 2029

Anger at De Graafschap spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match30 Apr 2029

The season ends: position 13 for De Graafschap

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 29 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Match28 Apr 2029

No end in sight to De Graafschap's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at De Graafschap has to find a result from somewhere.

The dugout30 Apr 2029

Bram Scholten: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” De Graafschap have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match28 Apr 2029

4 matches without a goal for De Graafschap

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad30 Apr 2029

Iker Muñoz 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.

Squad30 Apr 2029

A falling-out at De Graafschap

Matthew Mparaganda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad30 Apr 2029

Home is on Andrés Marín's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; De Graafschap are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout30 Apr 2029

A promise honoured at De Graafschap

Something was said to Levi Schoppema and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

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137 Edition

The De Graafschap Post

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings12 Mar 2029

Levi Schoppema pops up at the right end — 7.98

7.98, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

The dugout12 Mar 2029

Benjamin Mambo says De Graafschap went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad12 Mar 2029

Matthew Mparaganda arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Matthew Mparaganda has, at De Graafschap, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Match10 Mar 2029

At last: De Graafschap win one

8 matches without a win, and then this, against NAC Breda. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

The dugout12 Mar 2029

Jannes Wieckhoff frozen out at De Graafschap

This is not rotation. Jannes Wieckhoff has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at De Graafschap is pretending otherwise.

Squad12 Mar 2029

A falling-out at De Graafschap

Ibrahim El Kadiri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad12 Mar 2029

Words at De Graafschap training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iker Muñoz 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.

Match10 Mar 2029

De Graafschap see off NAC Breda

Three points for De Graafschap, 2‑1 the final word against NAC Breda in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces12 Mar 2029

De Graafschap supporters have found a favourite in Lewis Koumas

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Lewis Koumas 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.

In brief