The Hamrun Spartans Sentinel
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Michele Carboni
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
Hamrun Spartans tear Marsaxlokk apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑1 against Marsaxlokk, and it could have been more.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Both of them Kléri Serber's — 8.18
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.18, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Mouad El Fanis — 7.94
Marked 7.94. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Match29 Aug 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
6 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Radnicki 1923 are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Hamrun Spartans will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Mouad El Fanis
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market31 Aug 2026
Hamrun Spartans promote Frank Mifsud from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Frank Mifsud has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Jake Xerri joins the Hamrun Spartans first team
- Market One of our own: Simon Micallef joins the Hamrun Spartans first team
- Player ratings A masterclass from Jonny