From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Flora U21 would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
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From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Flora U21 the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
He came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. Flora U21 will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Nobody outside is coming to save us.” It was short, it was not comfortable, and by all accounts the Flora U21 squad were quieter afterwards than they had been all season.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Karl-Tristan Lorenz and Flora U21 agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.