The Excelsior Gazette
Squad14 Aug 2028
Len Bakker keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Excelsior may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Noah Naujoks 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 Excelsior this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Aug 2028
As if he never left: Tim Dumfries returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Tim Dumfries is a Excelsior player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market14 Aug 2028
Wesley Dijks comes home
The shirt still fits. Wesley Dijks is back at Excelsior, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market14 Aug 2028
Kenneth Bergwijn comes home
The shirt still fits. Kenneth Bergwijn is back at Excelsior, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market14 Aug 2028
Owen Berghuis comes home
The shirt still fits. Owen Berghuis is back at Excelsior, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Derensili Sanches Fernandes in the eights
A performance of 9.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
One of those days for Yacqub Finey
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
A masterclass from Irakli Yegoian
Marked 8.16 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Boardroom A promise the Excelsior board did not keep
- Squad Rick Meissen gets it from the manager
- Match Irakli Yegoian rescues a point for Excelsior