The Boa Sentinel
Match31 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Boa's wait for a win
18 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Boa has to find a result from somewhere.
Match31 Jul 2027
Boa cannot find the net
15 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Boa
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match2 Aug 2027
Every point is an argument now for Boa
Position 11 and 2 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Boa put Pedro Fernandes on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market2 Aug 2027
Caio Quiroga 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 The request is on a desk at Boa, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Rodriguinho 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 Boa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match31 Jul 2027
A bad afternoon for Boa against São Paulo
0‑2 to São Paulo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market2 Aug 2027
One of our own: Fernando Gomes joins the Boa first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fernando Gomes 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 Júnior Guimarães steps up from the Boa academy
- Market Sérgio Lima steps up from the Boa academy
- Looking ahead Everything rides on Parana