The Clermont Foot Courier
Market19 Feb 2029
Thomas Amang 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 The request is on a desk at Clermont Foot, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match19 Feb 2029
Clermont Foot are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 46 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings19 Feb 2029
Both of them Paris Brunner's — 8.86
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.86, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Defences have started doubling up on Paris Brunner
23 goals and a season average of 7.22 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market19 Feb 2029
Yanis Maronne is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Clermont Foot is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match17 Feb 2029
Clermont Foot cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Tempers go at Clermont Foot
Adrien Hunou 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.
Squad19 Feb 2029
A row about effort at Clermont Foot
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Paris Brunner was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets19 Feb 2029
Door shut on Erik Kojzek
Clermont Foot asked and WSG Tirol said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Match Paris Brunner sends Clermont Foot past Grenoble Foot 38
- Squad Émile Mathieu out for 37 days
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Andy Pelmard at his very best