Marked for Ignacio Fernández
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Jairo O'Neill and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Agustín Amado knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Boston River, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
14 appearances at Puebla and the goals keep coming. Boston River are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market2 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Fredy Martínez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Match15 Aug 2026
2‑0 against Racing, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.94, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Agustín Aguirre and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ignacio Fernández 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Kevin Pellistri could afford to be generous.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Jairo O'Neill dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Leo Suárez
Nobody at Boston River is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Wanderers in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.