Marked for Dwiky Hardiansyah
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Meshack Maphangule 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Gazelle training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bicto Tyonga 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Gazelle would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Musa Wakili has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Musa Wakili keeps the shirt for now, at Gazelle's convenience rather than his own.
Market21 Sep 2026
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Robi Darwis arrives at Gazelle with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
Market21 Sep 2026
No fee and no drama: Dwiky Hardiansyah has signed at Gazelle, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
In brief
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Market
Gazelle shop where it costs nothing
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Market
Gazelle shop where it costs nothing
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 7.98 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Borneo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mariano Peralta Bauer 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Cleylton
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Borneo
Cyrus Margono 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Shots: 6. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Borneo needed to.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Shots: 5, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.