Ellis Spikner

Striker - Hapoel Acre
19 Aug 2032
Thursday
Process

Marked for Ellis Spikner

312 Edition

The Hapoel Acre Gazette

19 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Saar Schwartz gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hapoel Acre

Adi Benayoun 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.

The dugout

Mor Siman-Tov gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mor Siman-Tov is on it.

In brief

Back issues
223 Edition

The Hapoel Acre Gazette

4 Nov 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Osama Khalaila

15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hapoel Acre lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Ange Messi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces

Anger at Hapoel Acre spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match

No end in sight to Hapoel Acre's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hapoel Acre has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Hapoel Acre

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Tempers go at Hapoel Acre

Shalev Ovnish 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.

Match

Hapoel Acre come up short against Maccabi Netanya

Maccabi Netanya left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Ellis Spikner signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ellis Spikner and Hapoel Acre agree another 3 years.

The dugout

Evgeny Mikhaylov answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief