The Zabbar St. Patrick Gazette
Market30 Aug 2027
Terms done: Miloš Jovičić is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Birkirkara waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Zabbar St. Patrick is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match28 Aug 2027
Nowhere to hide for Zabbar St. Patrick
1‑4 against Floriana, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
The terraces30 Aug 2027
Anger at Zabbar St. Patrick 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Bruno Figueiredo asks to leave Zabbar St. Patrick
“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.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Miloš Jovičić: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Zabbar St. Patrick have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Bruno Figueiredo 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 Zabbar St. Patrick this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Zabbar St. Patrick
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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Pedro Cejas signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pedro Cejas and Zabbar St. Patrick agree another 4 years.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at Zabbar St. Patrick training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Strahinja Jovančić 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.
In brief
- Market Zabbar St. Patrick promote George Tabone from within
- Market One of our own: Nicholas Schembri joins the Zabbar St. Patrick first team
- Boardroom Nobody left the Zabbar St. Patrick dressing room in a hurry