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Crisis
The terraces22 Nov 2027
The mood at Tammeka has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad22 Nov 2027
A move Artem Perepechko would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Artem Perepechko is living that version at Tammeka, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Richard Aland 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luis Felipe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad22 Nov 2027
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.
Market22 Nov 2027
No fee and no drama: Artem Perepechko has signed at Tammeka, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
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Uneasy
The terraces25 Oct 2027
The mood at Tammeka has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Richard Aland 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luis Felipe 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.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
Thomas Lisboa 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 Thomas Lisboa trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad25 Oct 2027
The training reports on Boyan Dishkov are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
Squad25 Oct 2027
The least glamorous thing a foreign signing ever does and the one that decides most of them. A player who can hear the shout behind him is a different footballer from one who cannot.
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Crisis
Squad9 Aug 2027
62 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Tammeka lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match9 Aug 2027
Tammeka are in real trouble now
Position 10, 8 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.
Market9 Aug 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tammeka, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tammeka may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luis Felipe 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
Squad21 Jun 2027
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match16 Jun 2027
The small margins put Tammeka out
Out, 1‑4 to Levadia, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
A cup embarrassment at Levadia follows Tammeka home
1-4. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tammeka may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match19 Jun 2027
4 matches without a win for Tammeka
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Tammeka are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The decline has begun for Luis Felipe
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Tammeka is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luis Felipe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Jun 2027
David Dimitrov 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.
Match19 Jun 2027
Tulevik left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luis Felipe commits to Tammeka for another 1 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Richard Aland 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Gabriel Menezes 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. Gabriel Menezes has, at Tammeka, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Tammeka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Reio Laabus was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market8 Feb 2027
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.