The Sliema Wanderers Herald
Market29 Mar 2032
Only the photograph left for Pierre Xerri
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Pierre Xerri will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sliema Wanderers the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad29 Mar 2032
Tempers go at Sliema Wanderers
Teddy Teuma 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2032
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Squad29 Mar 2032
Words at Sliema Wanderers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oskar Lipiński 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2032
When it matters, Jean Borg plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout29 Mar 2032
No hiding place for George Cauchi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to George Cauchi, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market Luke Montebello linked with a move away
- The dugout Teddy Teuma keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Thomas Cutajar is out on the grass again