The Hamrun Spartans Sentinel
Match29 Aug 2026
Kléri Serber leads the rout of Marsaxlokk
9‑2, and Kléri Serber took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Hamrun Spartans tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Rafael Compri out for 117 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hamrun Spartans will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Blessing Eleke scores twice — 8.52
Two goals and a mark of 8.52 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Both of them Kléri Serber's — 8.14
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.14, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Bruno Figueiredo takes the afternoon — 8.06
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Bruno Figueiredo provided it, and the 8.06 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Michele Carboni takes the afternoon — 7.91
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Michele Carboni provided it, and the 7.91 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Hamrun Spartans
Bruno Figueiredo 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
11 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Hamrun Spartans and Marsaxlokk in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Hamrun Spartans
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
In brief
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Michele Carboni
- Market James Mifsud steps up from the Hamrun Spartans academy
- Market Hamrun Spartans promote Philip Cutajar from within