Mark Barbara

Left Forward - Birkirkara U20
17 Mar 2036
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485 Edition

The Birkirkara Courier

12 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match10 Nov 2035

No end in sight to Birkirkara's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Birkirkara has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad12 Nov 2035

Tempers go at Birkirkara

Franklin Sasere 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.

Match10 Nov 2035

Franklin Sasere’s goal not enough for Birkirkara

Franklin Sasere scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Gzira United, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad12 Nov 2035

Birkirkara lose Mark Barbara

33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad12 Nov 2035

Words at Birkirkara training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessandro Coppola 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.

Squad12 Nov 2035

Rashed Al-Tumi dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

Back issues
472 Edition

The Birkirkara Courier

13 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad13 Aug 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Shaun Dimech

61 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Birkirkara lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The terraces13 Aug 2035

Anger at Birkirkara spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad13 Aug 2035

A fracture rules JP Iseppe out for 87 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Birkirkara will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom13 Aug 2035

The scrutiny sharpens at Birkirkara

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Birkirkara is running low.

Market13 Aug 2035

Birkirkara say no — this time

The offer from Zabbar St. Patrick for Mikhail Nedospasov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market13 Aug 2035

Mark Barbara has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Birkirkara they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad13 Aug 2035

Tempers go at Birkirkara

Franklin Sasere 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.

Squad13 Aug 2035

Ibrahim Halilou Mouhaman 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.

Boardroom13 Aug 2035

Wages eat 88% of everything Birkirkara earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief

469 Edition

The Birkirkara Courier

23 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad23 Jul 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Shaun Dimech

82 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Birkirkara lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad23 Jul 2035

A fracture rules JP Iseppe out for 108 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Birkirkara will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad23 Jul 2035

Tempers go at Birkirkara

Luis Mario Córdova 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.

Squad23 Jul 2035

Alessandro Coppola 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.

Market23 Jul 2035

The Mark Barbara conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Marsaxlokk will make the call about Mark Barbara this week. Birkirkara have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Market23 Jul 2035

Martin Grigoryan linked with a move away

The name of Martin Grigoryan keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Birkirkara say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief