Thomas Henry

Central Defender - Chamois Niortais
3 Apr 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Thomas Henry

15 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

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.

Match

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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

Back issues
8 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Chamois Niortais out of the cup

OGC Nice ended it 1‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad

Pierre Brun is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Pierre Brun: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Market

Yann Rousseau is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Chamois Niortais is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Yann Rousseau signs for Stade Lavallois while still at Chamois Niortais

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Yann Rousseau has agreed terms with Stade Lavallois for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Player ratings

A hand in 2 of them from Laurent Jean — 7.97

Marked 7.97. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

Match

Chamois Niortais come up short against Tours

Tours left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Tempers go at Chamois Niortais

Maxime Spano 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Thomas Henry

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thomas Henry, and the manager let it.

Squad

Luc Girard is carrying Chamois Niortais

11 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief

1 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Laurent Jean

Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

A brace, and Luc Girard takes the afternoon — 8.55

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Luc Girard provided it, and the 8.55 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

A debut Stéphane Marchand will not forget — 7.76

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.76 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Market

Frédéric Barbier raises the bar for Chamois Niortais

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Chamois Niortais heard it as anything else.

Squad

Thomas Henry 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.

Squad

Words at Chamois Niortais training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Laurent Jean 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.

Match

Chamois Niortais see off Stade Lavallois

Three points for Chamois Niortais, 2‑1 the final word against Stade Lavallois in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

Chamois Niortais supporters have found a favourite in Stéphane Marchand

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Stéphane Marchand 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.

Market

Pro Patria watching Michel Adam

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Chamois Niortais have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief