The Hamrun Spartans Sentinel
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Kléri Serber
Successful dribbles: 69. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Eder Bruno out for 33 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hamrun Spartans will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match28 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Hamrun Spartans
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Shaisen Attard at Hamrun Spartans
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Shaisen Attard is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match28 Aug 2027
7 unbeaten for Hamrun Spartans
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Hamrun Spartans did not have in the autumn.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Danilo Bulevardi 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 Hamrun Spartans this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Hamrun Spartans
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Jonny has improved at 29, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Market30 Aug 2027
One of our own: Karl Fenech joins the Hamrun Spartans first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Karl Fenech is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Samuel Cassar steps up from the Hamrun Spartans academy
- Market Hamrun Spartans promote Kenneth Azzopardi from within
- Market Stefan Xerri steps up from the Hamrun Spartans academy