From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match18 Mar 2028
No end in sight to Novara's wait for a win
15 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Novara has to find a result from somewhere.
Match20 Mar 2028
Novara sink to position 17
27 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match18 Mar 2028
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad20 Mar 2028
The manager makes an example of Roberto Ranieri
“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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Elia Boseggia knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad20 Mar 2028
One booking too many, and Roberto Ranieri sits out. Novara lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad20 Sep 2027
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match18 Sep 2027
Novara get the job done against Renate
A 2-0 win over Renate, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad20 Sep 2027
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad20 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Omar Khailoti
“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.
Market20 Sep 2027
The name of Lorenzo Villa keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Novara say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Leonardo Morosini has let it be known that he does not like the way Novara are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Jun 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Novara have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad28 Jun 2027
The medical room confirms 41 days on the sidelines for Eric Lanini, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad28 Jun 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market14 Sep 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Novara know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Novara can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market24 Aug 2026
He is 16, and nobody at Novara signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.