Joseph Debono

Left Wingback - Marsaxlokk U20
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174 Edition

The Marsaxlokk Gazette

26 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Nov 2029

The knee: Luke Anthony Borg out for 36 days

36 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Marsaxlokk lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match24 Nov 2029

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

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

Match24 Nov 2029

The goals have deserted Marsaxlokk

6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Marsaxlokk can tell you which week it ends in.

Market26 Nov 2029

Michael Mintoff 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 The request is on a desk at Marsaxlokk, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad26 Nov 2029

A row about effort at Marsaxlokk

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Domantas Šimkus was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout26 Nov 2029

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The dugout26 Nov 2029

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Squad26 Nov 2029

Joseph Debono stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Joseph Debono and Marsaxlokk agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings26 Nov 2029

The afternoon belonged to Redon Mihana

A mark of 7.45, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

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143 Edition

The Marsaxlokk Gazette

23 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces23 Apr 2029

Anger at Marsaxlokk 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.

Boardroom23 Apr 2029

The scrutiny sharpens at Marsaxlokk

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

Match23 Apr 2029

Every point is an argument now for Marsaxlokk

Position 11 and 14 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad23 Apr 2029

Words exchanged at Marsaxlokk

Domantas Šimkus 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.

Squad23 Apr 2029

Words at Marsaxlokk training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isaac Christie-Davies 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 dugout23 Apr 2029

James Kirby has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Marsaxlokk will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief