The Panthere du Nde Herald
Match17 Mar 2035
Fortuna Mfou end the Panthere du Nde run at 26
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 26 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Match19 Mar 2035
Panthere du Nde finish in position 1
61 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Squad19 Mar 2035
A falling-out at Panthere du Nde
Abdelrahman Magdy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Mar 2035
Fortuna Mfou take the points off Panthere du Nde
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout19 Mar 2035
Marc Onguene 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.
Squad19 Mar 2035
Words at Panthere du Nde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. François Fegue Omgba 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.
Player ratings19 Mar 2035
Christian Ganago runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout19 Mar 2035
Peter Hawkins: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout19 Mar 2035
Mohamed Moluh Mounta has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Panthere du Nde will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- Squad Andre Oyongo makes his debut at 17
- The dugout François Fegue Omgba knocks on the manager's door
- Market The Abdelrahman Magdy story refuses to die