Marked for Gianmarco Guidi
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gianmarco Guidi
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bra lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Bra's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bra has to find a result from somewhere.
Match7 Nov 2026
Bra cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Bra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giacomo Volpe 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
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Squad
The Bra dressing room has split into 4 groups
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Match
Bra and Carpi cancel each other out
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gianmarco Guidi
22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bra lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Bra's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bra has to find a result from somewhere.
Match31 Oct 2026
Bra cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 148% of everything Bra 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gianmarco Guidi
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bra lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Bra
Franklyn Akammadu 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Bra
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bra can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Bra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giacomo Volpe 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Forli take the points off Bra
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gianmarco Guidi
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bra lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bra have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match17 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Pontedera defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gianmarco Guidi
43 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bra lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.