Sporting Charleroi 0–3 Union 19 February 2022 — Jupiler Pro League Matchday 28 And so to Charleroi: driving wind and rain, a wet and muddy pitch, an electric atmosphere, and for Union, a point to prove. After the defeat at home to STVV, it was time for Union to fight back. …

Union 0–1 STVV 13 February 2022 — Jupiler Pro League Matchday 27 Union hit the heights; now for the crash landing. There was a fear that after the unbeaten four-game series against last season’s PO1 participants, a game against lowlier opposition — Sint-Truiden lie 12th- would present a different and difficult challenge, mentally…

Royal Antwerp 0–2 Union 5 February 2022 — Jupiler Pro League Matchday 26 And so to the fourth of Union’s big winter examinations. So far, the results have been first class: seven points from nine against last season’s top four, with just one goal conceded (a dubious penalty). A win at the Bosuilstadion, Antwerp’s…

Union 1–0 RSC Anderlecht 30 January 2022 — Jupiler Pro League Matchday 25 Aaaand we’re back. It’s good to be home, and in comfort, with a well-deserved and important win on a strangely untroubling afternoon. From four points out of six to seven out of nine in Union’s play-off rehearsal against last season’s…

Club Brugge 0–0 Union 27 January 2022 — Jupiler Pro League Matchday 24 Thursday night, Belgium, and a summit meeting behind closed doors. Nothing unusual there. But it was Bruges, not Brussels that was the location for this meeting of leaders (well, first against third — Club Brugge having ceded second place to Royal…

RFC Seraing 0–4 Union 15 (and 18) January 2022 — Jupiler Pro League Matchday 22 The winter break is over, and the Pro League is back. If you look hard enough. After Felice Mazzù gave the team a few days at a winter training camp in La Manga — which England football fans will…

Union 3–2 Cercle Brugge 18 December 2021 — Jupiler Pro League Matchday 20 A week before Christmas, and the picture is looking gloomy. Omicron is here. Masks are on. Few people think we’ll be back together in the stadiums after this weekend, at least until the end of January. With the prospect of multiple…

SV Zulte Waregem 0-2 Union 15 December 2021 — Jupiler Pro League Matchday 19 The last away match of 2021, and we’re back where the season began: a victory, with no Unionistes there to witness it due to the blasted plague. Not that anyone but the hardiest souls would have been there anyway — a…

Union 2–0 KV Mechelen 12 December 2021 — Jupiler Pro League Matchday 18 Let’s go round again. The second half of the season begins with Union four points clear of Club Brugge and with the ship steadied again after the defeat to OH Leuven in the last home match. So it’s back to Mariën…