Articles tagged with "russian-premier-league"
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 ...
Season Preview: Krylya Sovetov Samara. Gang
By Ivan | February 28th, 2007Location. Samara is situated on the banks of Volga river. Samara’ fans probably were the greatest supporters in Russia, especially in 2004 when Krylya Sovetov ...
Season Preview: Saturn Ramenskoe. Afterworld
By Ivan | February 27th, 2007Location. Ramenskoe is a not-so-big city but it hosts a strongest team in Moscow region. Saturn has support of general-colonel governor Gromov and club chief ...
Season Preview: FC Rostov. Slack
By Ivan | February 26th, 2007Location. Rostov-upon-Don is a big city on Seattle latitude – but we called it South. Rostov is well known after its criminal authorities, delicious lobsters ...
Season Preview: Amkar Perm. Chill
By Ivan | February 25th, 2007Location. Perm is situated near Ural mountains, 1500 km east and little north from Moscow. No wonder it’s very cold and no grass here in ...
Season Preview: Dynamo Moscow. Hoodoo
By Ivan | February 24th, 2007Location. Dynamo has stadium with same name in Moscow but also use to play home matches at Luzhniki arena (which will host Champions League final ...
Season Preview: Kuban Krasnodar. Granary
By Ivan | February 23rd, 2007Location. Kuban is a river flows through Krasnodar city. Region produces agricultural goods: tons of grain, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and so on. No wonder if ...
Season Preview: FC Khimki. Village
By Ivan | February 22nd, 2007Location. Khimki is Moscow suburb full of egg-boxes (behind the stadium on photo below). The main sightseeing is IKEA mega store so you can ...
Map of Russian Football
By Ivan | February 21st, 2007Russian Premier League contains 16 clubs and there are 17 days left to start. So tomorrow I’ll began to introduce you the teams – one ...
The Problem with Goalkeeping
By Ivan | February 19th, 2007Times of Lev Yashin passed away. Now in Russia nobody wants to be goalkeeper. Almost every club in Premier League has a vacant first number ...
How Do They Spend a Weekend
By Ivan | February 17th, 2007Moscow city hosts 6 big football clubs. Poor Moscow region (you have to realize that it’s bigger than Holland!) strongly differs from wealthy Russian capital ...
Spartak vs CSKA: hotter than Old Firm derby
By Ivan | February 16th, 2007Russian Premier League isn’t one of the greatest in Europe but we have something special down here. Nine hours flights for away games, three home ...
Fan for a Match: If only there were still Communists around to Blame
By Bob | September 18th, 2006It has now been more than a month since we experienced our first and only taste of Fan for a Match victory. Our adopted ...
Fan for a Match: Luch Energiya
By Bob | September 14th, 2006Desperate times call for desperate measures. The past three weeks we have seen of Fan for a Match selections crash and burn. We're ...
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