The Birkirkara Courier
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Jere Vrcić at 21 — 8.06
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jere Vrcić did not need any: 8.06, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market31 Aug 2026
Nicholas Borg puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Birkirkara, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 Aug 2026
Jere Vrcić the difference as Birkirkara beat Gzira United
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jere Vrcić. 2‑1 against Gzira United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Birkirkara supporters have found a favourite in Jere Vrcić
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Jere Vrcić 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Franklin Sasere was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.58. 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Rashed Al-Tumi makes it 100
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Birkirkara
Donovan Makoma and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Birkirkara
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Luis Mario Córdova 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.
In brief
- The dugout A satisfied Giovanni Busuttil
- Boardroom Birkirkara turn down the training-ground plan
- The dugout Birkirkara pick somebody else ahead of Shelom Magri