The Tours Chronicle
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Mathieu Blanc
Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Oct 2026
Tours refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 28 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Tours
The unbeaten run reaches 13. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A move Steven Hall would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Steven Hall is living that version at Tours, and it tends to show in the first month.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Sébastien Lacroix, 33, rolls back the years — 7.92
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.92 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Mathieu Baron keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tours may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Tours training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Henri Le Gall 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Tours get the job done against Red Star
A 2‑1 win over Red Star, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
Tours supporters have found a favourite in David Roche
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. David Roche 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Thomas Renard was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Squad Sébastien Lacroix in a row with a teammate
- Market Tours add cover with Steven Hall