Ben Purches

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Marked for Ben Purches

35 Edition

The Zabbar St. Patrick Gazette

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market29 Mar 2027

Fjolnir come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Zabbar St. Patrick did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Ben Purches is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Words at Zabbar St. Patrick training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Carlos Paz 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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Back issues
27 Edition

The Zabbar St. Patrick Gazette

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market1 Feb 2027

Jurgen Pisani puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Zabbar St. Patrick, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Mayron 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 Zabbar St. Patrick this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad1 Feb 2027

No hiding place for Vinicius

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vinicius, and the manager let it.

Market1 Feb 2027

Zabbar St. Patrick buy the years ahead of Ben Purches

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad1 Feb 2027

When it matters, Bruno Figueiredo plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Fernando Biela loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Fernando Biela. Zabbar St. Patrick will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

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