The Zurrieq Courier
Match22 Sep 2035
6 matches without a win for Zurrieq
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Zurrieq are no longer polite ones.
Squad24 Sep 2035
Salvatore Di Chiara keeps Zurrieq in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings24 Sep 2035
A defender's goal wins it for Zurrieq — 7.24
1 for Anakin Grahn, marked 7.24, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad24 Sep 2035
Words exchanged at Zurrieq
Leonard Londe and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad24 Sep 2035
Afonso Busatori 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.
Match22 Sep 2035
Anakin Grahn rescues a point for Zurrieq
It needed Anakin Grahn to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Marsa, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout24 Sep 2035
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Interim Coach chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout24 Sep 2035
Thomas Elyounoussi knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Thomas Elyounoussi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout24 Sep 2035
No hiding place for Dominic Mallia
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dominic Mallia, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market Salvatore Di Chiara runs his contract down
- Squad Frank Debono makes his debut at 15
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Glenn Middleton