Mairo Miil

Right Back - Tammeka
26 Aug 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Mairo Miil

47 Edition

The Tammeka Herald

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Tammeka bow out of the cup

FCI Tallinn go through and Tammeka go home, 2‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Market

Nomme Kalju come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Tammeka did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

The terraces

Fear has settled over Tammeka

Position 9, 14 points, and a crowd that arrives already braced. Relegation seasons are lost in exactly this atmosphere, and everybody who has lived through one recognises it immediately.

Squad

Patrick Genro Veelma keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tammeka may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

4 matches without a win for Tammeka

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Tammeka are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Muhammed Hydara was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.32. 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Pavel Marin

Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match

Anderson Barros answers FCI Tallinn immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Anderson Barros had Tammeka level again within 3 minutes, and FCI Tallinn never got to play with a lead at all.

Squad

No hiding place for Mairo Miil

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mairo Miil, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
39 Edition

The Tammeka Herald

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Richard Aland damages knee ligaments — 53 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 53 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

7 matches without a win for Tammeka

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Tammeka are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Saúl Reyes, 35, rolls back the years — 8.07

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.07 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

6 goals as Tammeka and Paide go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Tammeka and Paide, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match

A bad afternoon for Tammeka against Paide

2‑4 to Paide, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Tammeka training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Örken Makhan 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.

Player ratings

Muhammed Hydara runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Thomas Lisboa

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Tammeka

Anderson Barros 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.

In brief

29 Edition

The Tammeka Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mairo Miil

46 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tammeka lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Georg Lani asks to leave Tammeka

“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.

Squad

Nery Veloso out for 16 days

The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Nery Veloso, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief