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747 Edition

The Cittadella Chronicle

19 Nov 2040
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match17 Nov 2040

Nobody wins at Cittadella

59 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match17 Nov 2040

Cittadella cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad19 Nov 2040

Tempers go at Cittadella

Federico Casolari 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.

Squad19 Nov 2040

Cittadella lose Yan Shumskiy

22 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match17 Nov 2040

Cittadella see off Giana Erminio

Three points for Cittadella, 3‑2 the final word against Giana Erminio in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad19 Nov 2040

Taha Zidouh falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad19 Nov 2040

The manager makes an example of Matteo Neri

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings19 Nov 2040

Ninety minutes of Joaquín Pimentel at his very best

Marked 8.39. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Cittadella.

Player ratings19 Nov 2040

Cristian Virgilio was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.29. 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.

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The Cittadella Chronicle

9 Jul 2040
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad9 Jul 2040

A fracture rules Arnaut Xavi Simons out for 105 days

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

Squad9 Jul 2040

Tempers go at Cittadella

Federico Casolari 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.

Squad9 Jul 2040

Real improvement from Thomas James at Cittadella

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Thomas James is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad9 Jul 2040

Taha Zidouh falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market9 Jul 2040

The Federico Casolari talk will not go away

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

Market9 Jul 2040

The clock runs on Christ Achi Ange's contract

3 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

In brief

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The Cittadella Chronicle

28 Mar 2039
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad28 Mar 2039

Renato Barbieri damages knee ligaments — 117 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 117 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.

Match28 Mar 2039

Cittadella up to position 1

65 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Player ratings28 Mar 2039

Francesco D'Alessio, 35, rolls back the years — 8.26

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.26 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match26 Mar 2039

Cittadella make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Cittadella have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad28 Mar 2039

Francesco D'Alessio 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 Cittadella this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match26 Mar 2039

Cittadella are at home on the road

4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Squad28 Mar 2039

John Parker gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. John Parker has just signed for Cittadella, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad28 Mar 2039

Words at Cittadella training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Casolari 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.

Match26 Mar 2039

Francesco D'Alessio sends Cittadella past Giana Erminio

It finished 1‑0, and it was Francesco D'Alessio’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cittadella.

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