The Tours Chronicle
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Both of them Bruno Robin's — 9.61
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.61, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Dominique Lefèvre says Tours went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match14 Nov 2026
Nobody wants to play Tours 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Bruno Robin the difference as Tours beat US Creteil
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Bruno Robin. 3‑1 against US Creteil, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Michel Charpentier 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 Tours this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Bruno Robin is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.35 with 10 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Éder Cavalcante 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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
One of those days for Louis Royer
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.65, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tours count the cost of losing Patrick Roux
22 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Telli Siwe
- The dugout A satisfied David Arnaud
- The dugout A promise honoured for Telli Siwe