Articles tagged with "russian-premier-league"
Rubin Kazan Win Russian Title In Proper Fashion
By chris | November 3rd, 2008Rubin Kazan won their first ever championship on their 50th anniversary - albeit amidst minor rumbles of "championship fixing" - and they did so in ...
Europe's Unexpected Table Leaders
By chris | October 27th, 2008If you've looked at the tables across Europe, you might find yourself doing double takes to make sure that is the name you saw up ...
Name To Remember: Alan Dzagoev
By chris | October 23rd, 2008Andrei Arshavin's the now, but the future is fast approaching for the Russian National Team with 18 year old Alan Dzagoev on a meteoric rise. ...
Statement Games: Barca Roll Six; Zenit Go Two Better.
By chris | October 5th, 2008Two clubs who put up vastly different performances and perhaps equally undeserved results in the Champions League walked out of their domestic fixtures with "Well ...
Danny Alves: The €30m Man
By chris | August 25th, 2008UEFA Cup champs Zenit St. Petersburg just made the single biggest splash of the summer transfer window by putting down an insane €30m for one ...
An Ode To Hyperbole
By chris | August 7th, 2008Andrei Arshavin, like Cristiano Ronaldo, Rafinha and Lionel Messi (since freed by his captors), is a slave. Held against his will by his rich vodka-drinking ...
The Russian Premier League is Back (with Thom Yorke on vocals)
By Daryl | March 18th, 2008Here are all the goals from Russian Premier League, which kicked off this past weekend. First up is the historic Terek Grozny vs Samara Kryliya ...
Photo of the Day: Grozny - 2005
By chris | March 14th, 2008A 2005 picture of the city which hosted the kick off of the Russian Premier League today, with a vastly different look. (Unknown)
Russian league takes #6 spot
By Ian Rose | February 21st, 2008As predicted last week, the Russian Premier League has taken its place as the sixth-ranked league in Europe. Their current UEFA coefficient of 40.75, ...
Russia's next win will be massive
By Ian Rose | February 15th, 2008Now that the UEFA Cup is back, and this blog along with it, I wanted to take a look at the UEFA league coefficients, that ...
Know Your Minnows: Rubin Kazan
By Ian Rose | July 12th, 2007In the last installment of "Know Your Minnows", we took a look at Rapid Vienna of Austria. This week, we'll focus on the team ...
Dynamo Moscow did it 4 out of 12. And the secret is...
By Ivan | April 19th, 2007Dynamo Moscow isn't a lucky team. Really. Last years they were victim of fertilizer tycoon Alexey Fedorychev who bought a lot of foreign players and ...
Week 4: Elephant and Kitten scored goals, Lokomotiv jumped the track
By Ivan | April 10th, 2007Sorry for some space in Russian blog last week but here we come again. There are still news to read and goals to watch. Enjoy. Good ...
Week 3: Story of Three Derbies and the Broken Jaw
By Ivan | April 2nd, 2007Good Weekend Spartak Moscow Won the very principal away derby against Zenit. That was really Saint Petersburg versus Moscow clash and Muscovites suddenly crushed home side by ...
Meet Sunflower Seeds or Things To Do in Rostov When You're a Football Fan
By Ivan | March 23rd, 2007At last I got the perfect illustration for popular action among Russian supporters. There are nor banners neither fireworks. There aren't drums. Don't even think ...
Week 2: Sad Tune for Mozart (not composer, just midfielder)
By Ivan | March 19th, 2007Good weekend Leonid Slutskiy Coach of FC Moscow was the triumphant of principal "manager derby" vs Tom Tomsk (read more here). FC Moscow lost their best striker ...
It's Good To See Your Team One Position Higher
By Ivan | March 17th, 2007Spartak Moscow can't make up their mind to losing status of the greatest Russian team to CSKA. Club's glorious history force them to win, win ...
How Do You Call Them?
By Ivan | March 12th, 2007It's the last post of season preview – to summarize previous and give you a bit more. Let's dig into nicknames of Russian Premier League ...
Week 1: Argentinian Score at Far East (much closer to his country than Moscow)
By Ivan | March 12th, 2007It has started! Past weekend was first of new Russian Premier League season. So here are its heroes and villains. Good weekend FC Moskva Won the very first ...
Season Preview: CSKA Moscow. Overlords
By Ivan | March 11th, 2007Location. It's strange but the most successful Russian team of last 4 years hasn't own home stadium. Jokes has it that CSKA must play at ...
Season Preview: Spartak Moscow. Volksteam
By Ivan | March 10th, 2007Location. Spartak has a lot of fans not only in Moscow – they always were like Juventus in Italy. Every second man outside Moscow loves ...
Season Preview: Lokomotiv Moscow. Succession
By Ivan | March 9th, 2007Location. Historically Moscow has 4 big clubs – Spartak, Dynamo, CSKA, Torpedo – that’s why sometimes Lokomotiv was described as "fifth wheel in Moscow cart". ...
Season Preview: Zenit Saint Petersburg. Unity
By Ivan | March 8th, 2007Location. Saint Petersburg usually called "cultural capital" opposite to nominee Moscow: that's the key antagonism. Vlastimil Petrzela, Czech ex-coach of Zenit, once said "Zenit will ...
It's Time to Grab Spades
By Ivan | March 7th, 2007Massive snowfalls on Russian Far East covered everything - including Dynamo stadium in Vladivostok. Luch-Energiya will play there on Saturday against FC Moskva in Premier ...
Season Preview: Rubin Kazan. Sect
By Ivan | March 6th, 2007Location. Kazan is a capital of Tatarstan Republic. It was a centre of criminal activity at the decline of USSR but two years ago city ...
Season Preview: FC Moskva. Artifact
By Ivan | March 5th, 2007Location. Guess where? Yep, it's Moscow. Capital of Russia has financial potential to host even half of Premier League' teams. Moscow major Yuriy Luzhkov, who ...
Season Preview: Luch-Energiya Vladivostok. Flyover
By Ivan | March 5th, 2007Location. If looking from Moscow, Vladivostok is really on the edge of the world: 6500 km equals 9 hours flight. But it's close to Japan ...
Season Preview: Tom Tomsk. Outland
By Ivan | March 2nd, 2007Location. Tomsk is placed in the heart of Siberia. But the pitch is good enough even in early spring – because it has a heating ...
Season Preview: Spartak Nalchik. Hillfolk
By Ivan | March 1st, 2007Location. Nalchik hiding in between the Caucasus Mountains. Maybe that's why Spartak' fans use to throw stones to opponent's supporters. Luckily that kind of behavior ...
Meet Miss Saturn! (Or it would be better to talk about transfers?)
By Ivan | March 1st, 2007Miss Saturn contest is over. Here's the winner - Anastasia Maslova. Yeah, I understand your disappointment. Especially of this awkward plate in her hand. Don't ...
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