The Tours Chronicle
Match23 Nov 2026
Tours up to position 2
35 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A brace, and Mathieu Leroux takes the afternoon — 7.96
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mathieu Leroux provided it, and the 7.96 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match21 Nov 2026
Nobody wants to play Tours right now
4 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Bruno Robin is carrying Tours
11 goals and a season average of 7.38. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match21 Nov 2026
Tours find a way past AS Nancy
AS Nancy made Tours work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Tours
Michel Charpentier and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Tours
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Éder Cavalcante was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match21 Nov 2026
The run at home goes on for Tours
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
One of those days for Bruno Robin
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- The dugout Baboye Traoré gets it from the manager
- Player ratings The afternoon ran through Louis Royer
- The dugout A satisfied David Arnaud