The Bra Chronicle
Boardroom6 Aug 2029
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Bra can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
The terraces6 Aug 2029
Anger at Bra spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Filippo Porciatti gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Filippo Porciatti has just signed for Bra, and for once the answer mattered.
Market6 Aug 2029
Gerardo Fusco 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 Bra can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Tempers go at Bra
Enrico Baldini 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.
Squad6 Aug 2029
A late step up for Mattia Leoncini
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Words at Bra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ismet Sinani 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.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
Reggiana tell Bra: Daniele Sorrentino is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout6 Aug 2029
The manager makes an example of Ismet Sinani
“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.
In brief
- The dugout news_h_frozen_out_of_the_side
- Market Talks stall between Bra and Filippo Porciatti
- Market A stepping stone, not a home, for Jack Shaw