The Chamois Niortais Herald
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Raymond Paris
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match7 Nov 2026
Chamois Niortais make it 7 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Chamois Niortais have 7 straight wins of it.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A brace, and Luc Girard takes the afternoon — 8.59
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Luc Girard provided it, and the 8.59 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A one-man rearguard from Silas Ostrzinski
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Luc Girard is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.39 with 17 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match7 Nov 2026
Chamois Niortais keep winning on the road
4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Laurent Jean 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.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Luc Girard sends Chamois Niortais past Sochaux
It finished 2‑1, and it was Luc Girard’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Chamois Niortais.
In brief
- Loan watch Joseph Lopez counts the days
- Player ratings An afternoon Thomas Henry will want back
- Market Still no signature from Yann Rousseau