Marked for Matthieu Guerbert
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match21 Dec 2026
Position 12, 15 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.
Market21 Dec 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Bourg-Peronnas are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Dec 2026
62 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad21 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 Bourg-Peronnas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Mathéo Bodmer 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.
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Uneasy
Match23 Nov 2026
14 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market23 Nov 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 The request is on a desk at Bourg-Peronnas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bourg-Peronnas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.92 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
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 Bourg-Peronnas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 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 ratings23 Nov 2026
Sidi Cissé was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.24. 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Jules Meyer 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
AC Ajaccio held the lead for 2 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Bourg-Peronnas answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
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Uneasy
Match7 Nov 2026
There were 88 minutes on the clock and Nimes had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Bourg-Peronnas did not stop to explain themselves.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.81 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad9 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 Bourg-Peronnas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Sidi Cissé 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Jules Meyer 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Nathan Vitré gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Rayan Souici's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Greg Houla
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
9 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.
Match26 Oct 2026
Position 12, 10 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bourg-Peronnas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Greg Houla 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 Bourg-Peronnas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Timothée Pembélé 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Quentin Lacour
“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 ratings26 Oct 2026
7.85, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Bourg-Peronnas had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Match24 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Rayan Souici changes it off the bench
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Bourg-Peronnas had a different afternoon.
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match10 Oct 2026
7 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.16 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match10 Oct 2026
Elysée Logbo scored, and precious little else went right: 4‑5 to US Creteil, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad12 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 Bourg-Peronnas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jacques Mbiandjeu is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match10 Oct 2026
9 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Bourg-Peronnas and US Creteil in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Elysée Logbo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.65. 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.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Elysée Logbo 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.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mohamed Boumaaoui
21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bourg-Peronnas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match16 Sep 2026
Monaco go through and Bourg-Peronnas go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match19 Sep 2026
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Bourg-Peronnas are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Timothée Pembélé 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Bourg-Peronnas are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Francis Kembolo, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Bourg-Peronnas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mamadou Magassouba 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
A mark of 5.80 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.