The Mgarr United Chronicle
The terraces3 Mar 2036
Supporters organise against the Mgarr United board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Boardroom3 Mar 2036
Mgarr United put Interim Coach 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.
The dugout3 Mar 2036
Grant Beath: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mgarr United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad3 Mar 2036
Words at Mgarr United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Georgi Ivanov 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.
Squad3 Mar 2036
Dennis Pace signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dennis Pace commits to Mgarr United for another 3 years.
Squad3 Mar 2036
Mohamed Warda is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Mohamed Warda has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad3 Mar 2036
Peter Grima named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Peter Grima is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Market3 Mar 2036
Mgarr United and Georgi Ivanov 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 dugout3 Mar 2036
Luigi Costantini gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Grant Beath plays
- The dugout Bjorn Pace knocks on the manager's door
- Market Birger Meling placed on the list