The Altamura Herald
Market22 Feb 2027
Alberto Spina has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Altamura they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match20 Feb 2027
Whatever happens, Altamura do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Tobia Mogentale 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 Altamura this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces22 Feb 2027
One of their own: Giuseppe Simone
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Altamura count the cost of losing Marcello Messina
40 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Marco Crimi
“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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Altamura caught on 85 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Foggia scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
The afternoon belonged to Giuseppe Simone
A mark of 7.76, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
A promise honoured for Nicola Dipinto
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Altamura told Nicola Dipinto something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Altamura and Foggia
- The dugout Silvio Fiorini: “We have to be better”
- The dugout Roberto Pirrello knocks on the manager’s door