The Feirense Sentinel
Squad28 Dec 2026
Alvinho keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Feirense may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Micael Babo goes up and wins it — 7.04
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.04 for the rest of it.
Match26 Dec 2026
Feirense make home a hard place to visit
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Feirense
Rafael Lobato 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Pedro Ferreira 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
No hiding place for Jon McLaughlin
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jon McLaughlin, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Match Feirense and Chaves take a point apiece
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Wellington Nem
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Khayon Edwards