From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match5 Dec 2026
5 matches without a win for Agia Napa
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Agia Napa are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
An order from above at Agia Napa: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Match5 Dec 2026
4 matches without a goal for Agia Napa
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 Dec 2026
Jefferson Sánchez 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
René Flores 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.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Berkay Vardar 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 ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 7.64 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Agia Napa had the best player on the pitch.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Luis Uliambre 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.
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Crisis
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Agia Napa's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Agia Napa has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Erick Chávez 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Agia Napa cannot find the net
3 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Jefferson Sánchez 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
300% of the income goes out in wages at Agia Napa
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Crisis
Match21 Nov 2026
Chastening afternoon for Agia Napa
A 0‑5 beating by APOEL was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Kostas Volakis: 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.” Agia Napa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Jefferson Sánchez knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad23 Nov 2026
René Flores 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.
Boardroom23 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Agia Napa dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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Crisis
Market16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Agia Napa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Edi Semedo 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jefferson Sánchez 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Edi Semedo scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Nea Salamis, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of René Flores
“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.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Edi Semedo 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. René Flores 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
300% of the income goes out in wages at Agia Napa
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match31 Oct 2026
Three points for Agia Napa, 1‑0 the final word against Paralimni in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Osman Koroma at his very best
Marked 8.09. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Agia Napa.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Edi Semedo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Edi Semedo 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
René Flores 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Domingos Quina was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.91. 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 2‑0 win over Ermis, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.76 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Agia Napa
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
16 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Crisis
Market19 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Agia Napa's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Agia Napa has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Klaidi Tershalla is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Erick Chávez 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
Jefferson Sánchez 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Domingos Quina scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Pafos, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.56 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lefteris Alabritis, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match10 Oct 2026
Onisiforos Rousias had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Anorthosis were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.68 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Agia Napa
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Agia Napa are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ilias Batzonis is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jefferson Sánchez 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
René Flores 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
René Flores 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Agia Napa lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Marios Peratikos 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. René Flores 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
3 matches without a goal for Agia Napa
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
531% of the income goes out in wages at Agia Napa
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Edi Semedo 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Osman Koroma
“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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad5 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Market5 Oct 2026
The Osman Koroma talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Agia Napa know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Match23 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Agia Napa
0‑0 against Apollon, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑3 to Ethnikos Achnas, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad28 Sep 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jefferson Sánchez 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Marios Peratikos 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 Sep 2026
Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. René Flores 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lefteris Alabritis, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Osman Koroma. 1‑0 against Omonoia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Osman Koroma
7.92, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Agia Napa had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Edi Semedo
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Erick Chávez
Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jefferson Sánchez 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
René Flores 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to René Flores, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
7 new faces, and Agia Napa are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 7.67. 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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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
Marco Vanzini 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 Agia Napa can pretend not to have heard.
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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jefferson Sánchez 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 259% of everything Agia Napa 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.
Squad7 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Domingos Quina was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.30. 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match5 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Osman Koroma talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Agia Napa know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 28, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market31 Aug 2026
Ilias Melkas 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 Agia Napa can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jefferson Sánchez 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Agia Napa
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Konstantinos Petrou 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kyriakos Christofi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market31 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pieros Elia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market31 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nicholas Makris is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Erick Chávez 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.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 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.
Squad24 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Modestos Sotiriou 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.
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Steady
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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jefferson Sánchez 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Agia Napa are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market17 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Modestos Sotiriou has his answer from Agia Napa; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market17 Aug 2026
Agia Napa bring in an old head
Erick Chávez is 38 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Market17 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Agia Napa
René Flores arrives at 36 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
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Steady
Squad10 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 Agia Napa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Agia Napa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jefferson Sánchez 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.
Market10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ilias Melkas has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Agia Napa.
Market10 Aug 2026
At 36, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
Squad10 Aug 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Agia Napa has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marios Peratikos and Agia Napa agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Marios Peratikos 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Antonis Tsiaras 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.