The Hamrun Spartans Sentinel
Match28 Aug 2027
Hamrun Spartans make home a hard place to visit
15 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Market30 Aug 2027
Célio has said yes to Tarxien Rainbows
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Hamrun Spartans have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market30 Aug 2027
Célio puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Hamrun Spartans, and it is not being withdrawn.
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
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Hamrun Spartans
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Door shut on Tyreece Campbell
Hamrun Spartans asked and Charlton Athletic said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Jake Grech 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Hamrun Spartans promote Jeremy Xerri from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jeremy Xerri has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market30 Aug 2027
Hamrun Spartans promote Giovanni Pace from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Giovanni Pace has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Augusto Cáseres is in the works
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Jake Grech
- The dugout When it matters, Ognjen Bjeličić plays