The Mtarfa Chronicle
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Mtarfa
Douglas Lukaku and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Mtarfa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guga 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Kalilou Trawally sends Mtarfa past Mgarr United
It finished 1‑0, and it was Kalilou Trawally’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Mtarfa.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Kalilou Trawally in the eights
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Kenneth Deguara has his say
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Kenneth Deguara on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Douglas Lukaku was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad21 Sep 2026
João Gabriel still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Mtarfa would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Half an hour was enough for Bruno Goiaba
He came on with the match going nowhere and left it settled. Mtarfa had the right man on the bench, and for once the timing was right too.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bruno Goiaba has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Bruno Goiaba keeps the shirt for now, at Mtarfa's convenience rather than his own.
In brief
- The dugout Dorian Bugeja left out for tactical reasons at Mtarfa
- Market The shop window has Tristen Sultana in it
- The dugout Thomas Borg asks for a word with the manager