Bruno Mathieu

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13 Nov 2026
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Marked for Bruno Mathieu

11 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Thomas Cousin

Successful dribbles: 46. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match10 Oct 2026

Chamois Niortais cannot stop winning

11 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

A brace, and Henri Renault takes the afternoon — 9.07

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Henri Renault provided it, and the 9.07 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Jérôme Ménard 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Lucas Droyaux is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match10 Oct 2026

Henri Renault the difference as Chamois Niortais beat Nimes

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Henri Renault. 2‑1 against Nimes, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad12 Oct 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Antoine Colin's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad12 Oct 2026

7 new faces, and Chamois Niortais are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Loan watch12 Oct 2026

Benoît Joly counts the days

“I watch every Chamois Niortais game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Le Havre AC runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match3 Oct 2026

Chamois Niortais make it 10 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Chamois Niortais have 10 straight wins of it.

Match3 Oct 2026

Chamois Niortais tear Valenciennes apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Valenciennes, and it could have been more.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Luc Leroy

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Both of them Henri Renault's — 8.98

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.98, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match3 Oct 2026

Another one collected away from home

6 on the bounce on the road for Chamois Niortais. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Market5 Oct 2026

Luc Leroy wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Loan watch5 Oct 2026

Frédéric Chevalier wants to come home

“I did not go to RC Strasbourg to sit and watch. I want to come back to Chamois Niortais and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 8 matches say the rest.

The terraces5 Oct 2026

The crowd has taken to Thomas Cousin

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Bruno Mathieu in the eights

A performance of 8.56 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

7 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Thomas Cousin

Successful dribbles: 55. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Both of them Bruno Mathieu's — 8.88

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.88, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match12 Sep 2026

Nobody wants to play Chamois Niortais right now

6 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.

Market14 Sep 2026

Luc Leroy wants more than Chamois Niortais are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Match12 Sep 2026

Chamois Niortais get the job done against US Creteil

A 2‑0 win over US Creteil, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Thomas Cousin 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Nacim El Hassani 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.

Loan watch14 Sep 2026

Benoît Joly wants to come home

“I did not go to Le Havre AC to sit and watch. I want to come back to Chamois Niortais and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Squad14 Sep 2026

5 new faces, and Chamois Niortais are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

1 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Thomas Cousin

Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market3 Aug 2026

Chamois Niortais turn down Estrela da Amadora for Rémi Guérin

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market3 Aug 2026

Jérôme Ménard wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Chamois Niortais hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Chamois Niortais

Jérôme Ménard 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Benoît Joly attracts admirers

The name of Benoît Joly has come up in conversations Chamois Niortais were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match1 Aug 2026

Chamois Niortais get the job done against Stade Lavallois

A 1‑0 win over Stade Lavallois, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Chamois Niortais training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thomas Cousin 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Dominique Vidal signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dominique Vidal commits to Chamois Niortais for another 1 years.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

The afternoon belonged to Bruno Mathieu

7.59, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Chamois Niortais had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief