The Leones Gazette
The terraces7 Apr 2036
Anger at Leones spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad7 Apr 2036
Tempers go at Leones
Luis Lee 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.
Squad7 Apr 2036
A row about effort at Leones
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Brian Sanchez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Apr 2036
A place in the month's best eleven for Cristian Rodríguez
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Cristian Rodríguez has come out of that comparison in the side, and Leones have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Market7 Apr 2036
Leones and David Alfaro are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout7 Apr 2036
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Interim Coach was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Leones dressing room was either.
Squad7 Apr 2036
Freddy Muriel wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Leones will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
The dugout7 Apr 2036
The manager makes an example of Daniel Valencia
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout7 Apr 2036
Somebody else is better right now than Duvan Lemos
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
In brief
- Match Leones and Cortulua cancel each other out
- The dugout Francisco Medina does not fit this one
- Market The Fernando Palacios story refuses to die