The Clermont Foot Courier
Squad10 Sep 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Maïdine Douane
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Clermont Foot lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market10 Sep 2035
Igor Serrote 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 Clermont Foot can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Sep 2035
3 goals for Mohammed Guindo
The match ball belongs to Mohammed Guindo, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings10 Sep 2035
Age has not caught Randell Williams yet — 8.02
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.02 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad10 Sep 2035
Frank Pikk gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Frank Pikk has just signed for Clermont Foot, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Sep 2035
Tempers go at Clermont Foot
Andy Pelmard 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.
Match8 Sep 2035
Clermont Foot make home a hard place to visit
10 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.
Player ratings10 Sep 2035
Mohammed Guindo in the eights
A performance of 9.61 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match8 Sep 2035
Clermont Foot find a way past Red Star
Red Star made Clermont Foot work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Igor Serrote
- Market The Ivan M'Bahia story refuses to die
- Market Clermont Foot pick up Frank Pikk for nothing