Jonathan Grech

Goalkeeper - Tarxien Rainbows
30 Jan 2027
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19 Edition

The Tarxien Rainbows Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market7 Dec 2026

Marko Musulin puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tarxien Rainbows, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match7 Dec 2026

Every point is an argument now for Tarxien Rainbows

Position 10 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Match5 Dec 2026

Tarxien Rainbows come up short against Birkirkara

Birkirkara left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

Patrick Schmidt was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.41. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Kwasi Donsu 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.

Squad7 Dec 2026

A falling-out at Tarxien Rainbows

Kyle Gatt and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout7 Dec 2026

The manager makes an example of Aleksander Łubik

“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.

The dugout7 Dec 2026

Kurt Vella: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 2‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Kian Vella named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Kian Vella is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Tarxien Rainbows Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match12 Oct 2026

Tarxien Rainbows sink to position 12

3 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match10 Oct 2026

The wait goes on for Tarxien Rainbows

8 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.

Market12 Oct 2026

Andreas Vella asks to leave Tarxien Rainbows

“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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Tarxien Rainbows

Marko Musulin 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.

Market12 Oct 2026

Lawrence Attard steps up from the Tarxien Rainbows academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lawrence Attard has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Home is on Cláudio Murici's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Tarxien Rainbows are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at Tarxien Rainbows training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sheldon Mizzi 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.

Market12 Oct 2026

A stepping stone, not a home, for Jonathan Grech

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Tarxien Rainbows were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

Squad12 Oct 2026

5 new faces, and Tarxien Rainbows 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.

In brief