The Floriana Chronicle
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Paul Mbong runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 45. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Dec 2026
The small margins put Floriana out
Out, 1‑1 to Hamrun Spartans, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match14 Dec 2026
Nobody above Floriana
First, on 36 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Floriana
Kenan Dervišagić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
No hiding place for Mattia Veselji
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mattia Veselji, and the manager let it.
Match12 Dec 2026
Floriana caught on 85 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Hamrun Spartans scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Jacques Bayo stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.94 on the card, and the Floriana support went home talking about one name.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
Jakob Cioffi wants to come home
“I did not go to Hamrun Spartans to sit and watch. I want to come back to Floriana and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 18 matches say the rest.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Jacques Bayo
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
In brief
- The dugout Manuel Gauci on the point
- Looking ahead Myles Beerman goes back to face Gzira United
- Squad A first senior shirt for Gilbert Borg