The Tours Chronicle
Match12 Sep 2026
No mercy from Tours
Nimes will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Tours were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Both of them Yves Jean's — 8.80
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.80, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match12 Sep 2026
Nobody wants to play Tours 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
Crotone come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tours did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Frédéric Perrin, 34, rolls back the years — 7.96
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.96 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market14 Sep 2026
Laurent Da Silva’s move to Red Star falls through
The deal that would have taken Laurent Da Silva to Red Star has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Tours with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Tours training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arnaud Lacroix 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Tours are at home on the road
3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
One of those days for Yves Huet
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.53, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Arnaud Lacroix
- Squad Jérôme Rousseau stays put
- Squad Marc Petit in a row with a teammate