Robert Agius

Central Defender - Hamrun Spartans
26 May 2030
Sunday
Process

Marked for Robert Agius

199 Edition

The Hamrun Spartans Sentinel

20 May 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Florian Michel

94 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hamrun Spartans lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Only the photograph left for Michael Biritwum Foh

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Michael Biritwum Foh will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hamrun Spartans the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Robert Agius hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hamrun Spartans can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Hamrun Spartans

Oshobe Oladele was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Danilo Bulevardi 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.

Squad

Danilo Bulevardi has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Hamrun Spartans 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

Back issues
190 Edition

The Hamrun Spartans Sentinel

18 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Florian Michel

157 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hamrun Spartans lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Matthew Guillaumier has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hamrun Spartans they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Robert Agius hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hamrun Spartans can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Oshobe Oladele 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.

Squad

Words at Hamrun Spartans training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danilo Bulevardi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Mouad El Fanis has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Hamrun Spartans 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

109 Edition

The Hamrun Spartans Sentinel

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Hamrun Spartans tear Marsaxlokk apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Marsaxlokk, and it could have been more.

Match

Nobody wins at Hamrun Spartans

15 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Player ratings

Both of them Jonny's — 8.59

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.59, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Only the photograph left for Matthias Debono

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Matthias Debono will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hamrun Spartans the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Oshobe Oladele 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.

Squad

Mouad El Fanis has improved at 24, 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. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Hamrun Spartans

4 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.

Squad

Words at Hamrun Spartans training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Danilo Bulevardi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

Gzira United join the queue for Henry Bonello

Add another name to the list: Gzira United have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Henry Bonello. The answer from Hamrun Spartans has not changed — yet.

In brief