The Marsaxlokk Gazette
Squad14 Sep 2026
Triston Caruana breaks a bone — 99 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 99 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A first appearance Timothy Tabone will want to forget — 5.55
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.55, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Marsaxlokk
Domantas Šimkus was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
David Idaiye runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for James Kirby
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to James Kirby, and the manager let it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Marsaxlokk come up short against Birkirkara
Birkirkara left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market14 Sep 2026
Talks stall between Marsaxlokk and Hamed Abdulhameed
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad14 Sep 2026
7 new faces, and Marsaxlokk are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The one thing James Kirby could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
In brief
- Player ratings Dodô never got going
- Market Marsaxlokk borrow Timothy Tabone
- Market Marsaxlokk bring in Antonio Mallia on loan