The Chamois Niortais Herald
Match10 Oct 2026
Chamois Niortais tear Nimes apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Nimes, and it could have been more.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Raymond Paris takes the afternoon — 8.26
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Raymond Paris provided it, and the 8.26 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Stéphane Marchand at 20 — 7.94
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Stéphane Marchand did not need any: 7.94, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match10 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Chamois Niortais right now
3 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Pierre Brun at Chamois Niortais
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Pierre Brun is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Luc Girard
13 goals and a season average of 7.27 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Maxime Spano 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 Chamois Niortais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
Chamois Niortais supporters have found a favourite in Laurent Jean
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Laurent Jean has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Daniel Philippe has improved at 27, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Laurent Jean
- Player ratings Henri Charles runs at them all day
- Market The Richard Pérez story refuses to die