Marked for Jaiminho
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Jaiminho
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Zaidu Sanusi 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Farense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cláudio Falcão 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Three points for Farense, 1‑0 the final word against Feirense in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Rui Costa
“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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Marked 7.88. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Back issues
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Crisis
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Jaiminho
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Zaidu Sanusi 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 Farense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Farense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Teixeira 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
Jaiminho scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Vizela, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Zaidu Sanusi
“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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Farense told João Teixeira something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
Everybody has an opinion about Fabijan Buntić
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Market15 Feb 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Farense know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market15 Feb 2027
6 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Farense could get for him.
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Crisis
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Jaiminho
Successful dribbles: 45. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Samuel Gomes has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Match3 Feb 2027
Farense bow out of the cup
Rio Ave go through and Farense go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match6 Feb 2027
Farense win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Leixões will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Zaidu Sanusi 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A move Nicolás Pelaez would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Nicolás Pelaez is living that version at Farense, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad8 Feb 2027
João Teixeira 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Rui Costa. 1‑0 against Leixões, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
The afternoon belonged to Rui Costa
A mark of 7.49, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Jaiminho runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Zaidu Sanusi
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Farense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Tomé Sousa has agreed terms with Leixões for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Match23 Jan 2027
7 unbeaten for Farense
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Farense did not have in the autumn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Farense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fabijan Buntić, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Jaiminho runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Rodrigo Borges damages knee ligaments — 15 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
João Teixeira 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Still nobody has beaten Farense
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Cláudio Falcão 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match16 Jan 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Chaves defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market18 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Farense know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market18 Jan 2027
7 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Farense money.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
Rodrigo Borges damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Jaiminho
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market11 Jan 2027
Brian Araújo has left for Maritimo in a $840.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Farense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market11 Jan 2027
Leixões pay $390.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Farense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jaiminho 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Leixões have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mohamed Silmi. The answer from Farense has not changed — yet.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lucas D'Agrella commits to Farense for another 4 years.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Marked 7.47. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Triumph
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Jaiminho runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 50. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Borges
32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Farense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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 Farense, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match2 Jan 2027
Sarpreet Singh wins it after the whistle should have gone
92 minutes played. Sarpreet Singh found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Leiria went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
A brace, and Sarpreet Singh takes the afternoon — 8.28
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sarpreet Singh provided it, and the 8.28 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Farense
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Farense is running low.
Match2 Jan 2027
Nobody wants to play Farense right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Farense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match2 Jan 2027
Leiria made Farense work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Farense training over how hard people work
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Squad
Jaiminho named in the team of the month
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Market
No place for Hugo Almeida in the plan
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad21 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Borges
50 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Farense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match16 Dec 2026
Farense through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Leiria, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match16 Dec 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Farense scored in the 106th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market21 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Gal Kranjčič at 20 — 8.02
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Gal Kranjčič did not need any: 8.02, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Shyon Omrani: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Farense have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 Dec 2026
João Teixeira 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Cláudio Falcão 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Borges
59 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Farense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match14 Dec 2026
Farense are in real trouble now
Position 17, 14 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Jaiminho 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
João Teixeira 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Rodrigo Borges damages knee ligaments — 67 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 67 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
“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 Farense, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
A brace, and Jaiminho takes the afternoon — 8.15
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jaiminho provided it, and the 8.15 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Dec 2026
He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Farense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Cláudio Falcão 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Three points for Farense, 2‑0 the final word against Oliveirense in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market7 Dec 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Farense, another week without a signature from João Teixeira.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Jaiminho runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 51. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Borges
75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Farense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Farense's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Farense has to find a result from somewhere.
Match28 Nov 2026
Farense cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Market30 Nov 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Cláudio Falcão wants continental football; whether Farense can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Farense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Jaiminho runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Borges
82 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Farense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Farense
4 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
The goals have deserted Farense
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Farense can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Farense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Farense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Teixeira 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
Rodrigo Borges damages knee ligaments — 90 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 90 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.
Match16 Nov 2026
Farense sink to position 16
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Jaiminho
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Gabriel Barbosa 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
João Teixeira 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
The goals have deserted Farense
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Farense can tell you which week it ends in.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Jaiminho runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 57. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Borges
98 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Farense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Farense can pretend not to have heard.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Borges
114 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Farense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Jaiminho runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marco Matias, 37, rolls back the years — 7.97
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.97 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Borges
121 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Farense lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Farense's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Farense has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Gabriel Barbosa 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
João Teixeira 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Kauan Firmino has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Jaiminho
Successful dribbles: 53. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market12 Oct 2026
“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.
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Farense
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Farense are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Oct 2026
João Teixeira 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to João Teixeira, and the manager let it.
Match10 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Farense against Leixões
0‑1 to Leixões, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Farense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alex Pinto 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Market12 Oct 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Jaiminho runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Farense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Farense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cláudio Falcão 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 110% of everything Farense earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Marco Matias dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match3 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Torreense leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas D'Agrella, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Farense had a different afternoon.
Market5 Oct 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. João Costa leaves Farense the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market28 Sep 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Farense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Jaiminho
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Farense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Borges 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Farense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Cláudio Falcão
“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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Chaves left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Alex Pinto 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
João Teixeira knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and João Teixeira trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Jaiminho
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
João Teixeira 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Cláudio Falcão 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Jaiminho’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Farense.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. João Resende has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
7.84, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Farense had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market7 Sep 2026
Shyon Omrani 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 Farense can pretend not to have heard.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Farense
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Farense are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a goal for Farense
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Farense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Farense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikola Gjorgjev 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The phone has started ringing about Brian Araújo again, and this time the name on the line is Tondela. Farense are listening politely and promising nothing.
Match5 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Jaiminho runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Sep 2026
Still no offer on the table, and João Teixeira’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market24 Aug 2026
Brian Araújo 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 Farense can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Gabriel Barbosa 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Farense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cláudio Falcão 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Académico de Viseu, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Jaiminho
Successful dribbles: 76. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
Farense say no — this time
The offer from Alverca for João Resende was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market17 Aug 2026
The chase for João Teixeira ended with $480.0K changing hands and Chaves out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Farense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Farense
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market17 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ricardo Simoes 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Antonio Santos has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Farense training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Borges 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Alex Pinto
7.23, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Farense had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.