The Birkirkara Courier
Market27 Aug 2029
Terms done: Franklin Sasere is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Tarxien Rainbows waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Birkirkara is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market27 Aug 2029
Rafa Santos 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 Birkirkara can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
Nea Salamis come asking about the manager
Birkirkara did not want this conversation and are having it anyway. A manager wanted elsewhere is a manager whose next contract talk just became more expensive.
Squad27 Aug 2029
A falling-out at Birkirkara
Zach Muscat and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
11 academy players handed senior numbers at Birkirkara
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.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Words at Birkirkara training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. JP Iseppe 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.
Market27 Aug 2029
One of our own: Ian Mangion joins the Birkirkara first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ian Mangion is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market27 Aug 2029
One of our own: Ivan Micallef joins the Birkirkara first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Micallef is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match25 Aug 2029
Birkirkara come up short against Birzebbuga St. Peter's
Birzebbuga St. Peter's left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
In brief
- Squad Cleilton wants to go home
- Boardroom A promise the Birkirkara board did not keep
- The dugout the manager faces the questions