The Francs Borains Sentinel
Squad28 Dec 2026
Sébastien Dewaest damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match26 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Francs Borains
The unbeaten run reaches 15. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Théo Gécé: 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.” Francs Borains have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market28 Dec 2026
Levi Malungu 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 The request is on a desk at Francs Borains, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match26 Dec 2026
Francs Borains make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Francs Borains
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Massimo Bruno was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Francs Borains
Philipp Wydra 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
One of our own: Dries Fellaini joins the Francs Borains first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dries Fellaini is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market28 Dec 2026
Lois Januzaj steps up from the Francs Borains academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lois Januzaj has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Kevin Chadli joins the Francs Borains first team
- Boardroom Wages eat 116% of everything Francs Borains earn
- Squad Yannick Reuten stays put