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Upbeat
Match19 Feb 2028
Three points for Bra, 2-1 the final word against Forli in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad21 Feb 2028
“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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Tommaso Maressa will call it something else in private.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Feb 2028
Matteo Pautassi: 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.” Bra have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Feb 2028
“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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ionut Chiriches commits to Bra for another 3 years.
Squad14 Feb 2028
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Bra pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Match12 Feb 2028
Honours even between Bra and Pontedera
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market14 Feb 2028
The name of Enrico Baldini keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Bra say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Match25 Dec 2027
No end in sight to Bra's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bra has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad27 Dec 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match25 Dec 2027
Bra come up short against Arezzo
Arezzo left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Uneasy
Match18 Dec 2027
No end in sight to Bra's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bra has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad20 Dec 2027
“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.
Match18 Dec 2027
Bra and Livorno take a point apiece
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market20 Dec 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bra know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The terraces20 Dec 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Matteo Pautassi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Market21 Jun 2027
The name of Jacopo Sassi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Bra say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Matteo Pautassi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Umberto Morleo has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Crisis
Match14 Jun 2027
Bra are in real trouble now
Position 16, 34 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market14 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Bra, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Boardroom3 May 2027
“This is a club with real history, and I did not have to think about it for long.” The new manager takes charge with every slate wiped clean.
Squad3 May 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Finn Tonks commits to Bra for another 4 years.
Market3 May 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Bra signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad3 May 2027
“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.
Squad3 May 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Alessandro Fiordaliso keeps the shirt for now, at Bra's convenience rather than his own.
Squad3 May 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Bra, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Apr 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bra have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market26 Apr 2027
The name of Jacopo Sassi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Bra say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Matteo Pautassi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Bra
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match27 Mar 2027
7 matches without a win for Bra
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Bra are no longer polite ones.
Match27 Mar 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Matteo Pautassi
“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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Bra have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market29 Mar 2027
The Jacopo Sassi talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bra know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Match6 Mar 2027
4 matches without a win for Bra
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Bra are no longer polite ones.
Squad8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Thomas Scapin
“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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Bra’s own kid cannot get a game
At 28, Franklyn Akammadu has come through every age group this club has, and now watches a borrowed player of much the same level start every week. An academy notices these things, and so do the parents in the stand.
Match6 Mar 2027
No goals between Bra and Carpi
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Carpi will be the happier side with the point.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Bra pull $32.1K back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
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Uneasy
Match23 Jan 2027
10 matches without a win for Bra
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Bra are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
145% of the income goes out in wages at Bra
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Match16 Jan 2027
9 matches without a win for Bra
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Bra are no longer polite ones.
Market18 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bra have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Bra draw a blank against Pianese
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Pianese defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market18 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bra know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
398% of the income goes out in wages at Bra
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match28 Nov 2026
A 1-1 draw with Sambenedettese leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Match14 Nov 2026
Three points for Bra, 1-0 the final word against Campobasso in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Uneasy
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
721% of the income goes out in wages at Bra
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Honours even between Bra and Gubbio
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.