The Naxxar Lions Post
Squad29 Apr 2030
Rosiel damages knee ligaments — 119 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 119 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.
Squad29 Apr 2030
Cedric 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 Naxxar Lions this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Apr 2030
Words at Naxxar Lions training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vitinho 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.
The dugout29 Apr 2030
Cedric has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Naxxar Lions will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout29 Apr 2030
The manager makes an example of Shaun Bugeja
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market29 Apr 2030
The Gustavo Campos talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Naxxar Lions know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Raymond Saliba in it
- Squad Tristan Pace is fit again