The Chamois Niortais Herald
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Bruno Muller
73 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chamois Niortais lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Sep 2026
Chamois Niortais cannot stop winning
9 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Match28 Sep 2026
Chamois Niortais are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 24 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Olivier Marchand
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Chamois Niortais
Yves Colin 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Mathieu Louis among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Mathieu Louis on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Chamois Niortais and Clermont Foot.
Match26 Sep 2026
Chamois Niortais find a way past Clermont Foot
Clermont Foot made Chamois Niortais work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Chamois Niortais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marc Vidal 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Sébastien Girard at his very best
Marked 8.44. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Chamois Niortais.
In brief
- Player ratings Raymond Noël in the eights
- Player ratings Yves Colin was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Squad No hiding place for Philippe Bourgeois