Bassem Hamdi

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Haras El Hodoud
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The Haras El Hodoud Courier

24 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match22 Dec 2035

Haras El Hodoud taken apart

0‑3 to Wadi Degla, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match22 Dec 2035

The wait goes on for Haras El Hodoud

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match22 Dec 2035

Haras El Hodoud cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Match22 Dec 2035

Haras El Hodoud leaking at the back

4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad24 Dec 2035

Appearance number 100 for Omar Fathy

100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

Boardroom24 Dec 2035

Doors closed at Haras El Hodoud

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout24 Dec 2035

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Denzel Van de Beek left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad24 Dec 2035

Ibrahim Sobhi 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.

The dugout24 Dec 2035

The manager makes an example of Bassem Hamdi

“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.

In brief

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The Haras El Hodoud Courier

3 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces3 Dec 2035

Supporters organise against the Haras El Hodoud 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.

Match1 Dec 2035

Chastening afternoon for Haras El Hodoud

A 1‑4 beating by El Masry was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market3 Dec 2035

Hamed Abdallah hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Haras El Hodoud can pretend not to have heard.

Market3 Dec 2035

Only the photograph left for Abdallah Ashour

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdallah Ashour will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Haras El Hodoud the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout3 Dec 2035

Bassem Hamdi: 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.” Haras El Hodoud have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom3 Dec 2035

Nobody left the Haras El Hodoud dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout3 Dec 2035

Denzel Van de Beek answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout3 Dec 2035

Haras El Hodoud keep their word to Ahmed Waheb

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad3 Dec 2035

Words at Haras El Hodoud training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ibrahim Sobhi 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.

In brief