Marked for Andreas Søndergaard
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad7 Oct 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Honved this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings7 Oct 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.33, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings7 Oct 2030
Marked 9.27 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match5 Oct 2030
A 2‑1 win over Diosgyor, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings7 Oct 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.59, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings7 Oct 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.51, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad7 Oct 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Höccət Haqverdi, and the manager let it.
Market7 Oct 2030
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad7 Oct 2030
“Nobody outside is coming to save us.” It was short, it was not comfortable, and by all accounts the Honved squad were quieter afterwards than they had been all season.
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Steady
Market23 Sep 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad23 Sep 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Honved this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
Marked 8.72 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad23 Sep 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tymofii Kicha, and the manager let it.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad23 Sep 2030
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Match21 Sep 2030
It needed István Márk Pekár to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Ferencvaros, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Defences have started doubling up on Ákos Zuigeber
3 goals and a season average of 7.21 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market18 Mar 2030
“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 Zbrojovka Brno, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad18 Mar 2030
Filip Vedral in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zbrojovka Brno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Mar 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dušan Ristić, and the manager let it.
Squad18 Mar 2030
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Zbrojovka Brno, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market18 Mar 2030
Experience through the door at Zbrojovka Brno
Telmo Castanheira arrives at 37 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Market18 Mar 2030
The name of Filip Vedral keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Zbrojovka Brno say nothing, which says plenty.