The Navua Chronicle
Match10 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Navua
4 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Zafarbek Rahimjonov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Nobody could get near Ali Mekawir
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Vinal Prasad 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 Navua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market12 Apr 2027
A long bet from Navua on Epeli Kumar
He is 14, and nobody at Navua signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Ali Mekawir has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Navua will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- Match Point won or two lost for Navua?
- Squad Josh Damevski knocks on the manager's door