Jack Moore

Left Midfielder - Crotone
14 Jul 2041
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jack Moore

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The Crotone Gazette

14 May 2040
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Samuele Del Piano damages knee ligaments — 63 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 63 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Spyros Angelidis keeps Crotone in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Kevin Mendoza

22 goals and a season average of 7.43 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Kevin Mendoza yet — 8.26

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.26 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Tempers go at Crotone

Maj Blažič 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.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Crotone

5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Player ratings

Jiri Stanek was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.01. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match

Crotone share the spoils with Cavese

A 2‑2 draw with Cavese leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Market

The Maj Blažič talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Crotone know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

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The Crotone Gazette

5 Dec 2039
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Spyros Angelidis out for 111 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Crotone will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A day Giancarlo Simigliani will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Match

Whatever happens, Crotone do not lose

11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Maj Blažič has been here 12 seasons

443 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Match

6 goals as Crotone and Altamura go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Crotone and Altamura, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match

Giancarlo Simigliani the difference as Crotone beat Altamura

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Giancarlo Simigliani. 4‑2 against Altamura, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Giancarlo Simigliani was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.66. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Edward Ibrović-Fletcher signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Edward Ibrović-Fletcher and Crotone agree another 3 years.

Player ratings

One of those days for Edward Ibrović-Fletcher

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief