The Tarxien Rainbows Courier
Market11 Jan 2027
Marko Musulin 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 Tarxien Rainbows can pretend not to have heard.
Market11 Jan 2027
Gzira United come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tarxien Rainbows did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Patrick Schmidt in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tarxien Rainbows this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match9 Jan 2027
The goals have deserted Tarxien Rainbows
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Tarxien Rainbows can tell you which week it ends in.
Match9 Jan 2027
Tarxien Rainbows come up short against Marsaxlokk
Marsaxlokk left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Marcus Grima 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Wesley has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tarxien Rainbows will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Andreas Vella
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andreas Vella, and the manager let it.
Market11 Jan 2027
Andrea Cassar told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Andrea Cassar has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Tarxien Rainbows.
In brief
- Market Tarxien Rainbows add cover with Gabriele Gigante
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Patrick Schmidt