The Cavese Sentinel
Squad28 Oct 2030
8 saves: Domenico Lamberti was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout28 Oct 2030
Patrick Faure: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cavese have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market28 Oct 2030
Matt Johnson has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cavese they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match26 Oct 2030
Leonardo Graziani’s goal not enough for Cavese
Leonardo Graziani scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Picerno, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad28 Oct 2030
Words exchanged at Cavese
James Hughes and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings28 Oct 2030
Leonardo Graziani was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.37. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings28 Oct 2030
Gabriel Kulla was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
The dugout28 Oct 2030
Tommaso Romano answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout28 Oct 2030
Francesco D'Amore gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Francesco D'Amore is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Domenico Lamberti knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Luciano Parise is the weekend's best young player
- Looking ahead Giuseppe Fella faces his old club