Simon King

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Floriana
17 Jul 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Simon King

98 Edition

The Floriana Chronicle

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Guilherme Cioletti

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

Market

Alen Kurtalić hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Floriana can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Hamrun Spartans come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Floriana did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at Floriana

Kenan Dervišagić 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Simon King at Floriana

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Simon King is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Elio Landi gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Elio Landi has just signed for Floriana, and for once the answer mattered.

In brief

  • Market Hibernians are about to pick up the phone
  • Market Floriana shop where it costs nothing
Back issues
76 Edition

The Floriana Chronicle

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Aidar Khabibullin

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

Market

Floriana say no — this time

The offer from Valletta for Kenan Dervišagić 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.

Market

Zachary Scerri asks to leave Floriana

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Floriana

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Tempers go at Floriana

Kenan Dervišagić 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.

Market

Hibernians watching Mustapha Jah

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Floriana have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Boardroom

Floriana agree a free transfer for Elio Landi

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Squad

Kauan 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.

Match

Floriana see off Sliema Wanderers

Three points for Floriana, 1‑0 the final word against Sliema Wanderers in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

3 Edition

The Charlton Athletic Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Thomas Kaminski keeps Charlton Athletic in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

George Pratt gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. George Pratt has just signed for Charlton Athletic, and for once the answer mattered.

Player ratings

Joe Rankin-Costello was immovable

26 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad

Lloyd Jones in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Charlton Athletic this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Charlton Athletic

4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Words at Charlton Athletic training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miles Leaburn 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.

The terraces

Charlton Athletic supporters have found a favourite in Tyreece Campbell

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Tyreece Campbell 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.

Market

One of our own: Benjamin Howard joins the Charlton Athletic first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Benjamin Howard is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Charlton Athletic promote Robert Marshall from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Robert Marshall 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