The Tours Chronicle
Squad21 Dec 2026
Raymond Colin is carrying Tours
27 goals and a season average of 7.81. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad21 Dec 2026
9 saves: Ousmane Ba was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match19 Dec 2026
Cruel end for Chamois Niortais as Tours pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Tours scored in the 93th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Match21 Dec 2026
Tours refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 49 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Match19 Dec 2026
Nobody wants to play Tours right now
7 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
42 days out for Stéphane Breton after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tours will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Raymond Colin takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A brace, and Émile Schmitt takes the afternoon — 8.30
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Émile Schmitt provided it, and the 8.30 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Léo Botz at 21 — 8.58
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Léo Botz did not need any: 8.58, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
In brief
- The dugout Charles Girard: that is not what I was promised
- Match Tours keep winning on the road
- Match Raymond Colin the difference as Tours beat Chamois Niortais