The Tours Chronicle
Match26 Sep 2026
No mercy from Tours
AC Ajaccio will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Tours were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match28 Sep 2026
Tours refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 19 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Konstantinos Karetsas runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A brace, and Marc Vasseur takes the afternoon — 8.16
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marc Vasseur provided it, and the 8.16 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tours
Denis Legrand 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Tours training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yann Giraud 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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
Tours supporters have found a favourite in Konstantinos Karetsas
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Konstantinos Karetsas 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Bruno Jean was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.18. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad28 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Daniel Mercier
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Mercier, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Squad Olivier Marie has become a man the manager trusts
- Market Benoît Garnier linked with a move away
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Jacques Guillaume