Articles tagged with "spartak-moscow"
Weekend Watch Recap: Let's Dance
By chris | March 17th, 2008Saturday Roma 2 - Milan 1: For the Giallorossi faithful, and probably some neutral observers, this one's going directly into the vault as one of the ...
Weekend Watch: When Maldini Met Totti, the finale
By chris | March 14th, 2008Saturday Roma v Milan: Because it's two of the biggest clubs in Europe fighting for two vastly different spoils, and not what you'd usually expect. Roma ...
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, ...
UEFA Dole Out Some Tiny Little Fines
By Martha | December 14th, 2007Apparently UEFA's Disciplinary Committee doesn't meet very often, because they're just now addressing incidents that took place during Champions League Matchday 3. Better late than ...
The current situation in the UEFA Cup
By Ian Rose | December 6th, 2007There is one matchday to go in the group stages of the 2007-08 UEFA Cup. Here are the current standings in each group, and ...
Early results: Bolton take shock point in Munich
By Ian Rose | November 8th, 2007The early matches of UEFA Cup group stage day 2 are over, and there are some real shocks. Bayern Munich, nearly everyone's favorite for ...
Mistaking Face for Ball can have Ugly Consequences
By Bob | October 22nd, 2007[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7RJ4gynCvE[/youtube] And the award for the most spectacularly awful (but fun to watch) tackle of the weekend goes to the video above. It took place ...
UEFA Cup Group E Preview
By Ian Rose | October 15th, 2007The fifth of eight groups in the UEFA Cup might just be the most interesting. There might not be any English or Italian teams ...
Swedes in classic UC comeback, Italians fall
By Ian Rose | October 4th, 2007We have some early results from today's action in the UEFA Cup, and one of the big stories is Sweden's Helsingborg. Having lost their ...
SPL Words of the Week from Anatoliy Karobochka
By Ian Rose | August 28th, 2007This week's quote is from Hearts football director Anatoliy Karobochka, who has finally explained, briefly and succinctly, what it takes to win a Champions League ...
A huge week ahead for Scotland
By Ian Rose | August 12th, 2007This week, three Scottish sides are playing in European competition - Celtic and Rangers in the Champions League, and Dunfermline in the UEFA Cup. ...
Could This Draw Suck Any More?
By JT | August 3rd, 2007Its highly unlikely. Celtic have drawn Russian league leaders FC Spartak Moskva, the team no one wanted to face, in the third qualifying round ...
LOSC Lille Métropole Has Now Lost 13 Total Players: Farewell Odemwingie
By Julien | July 19th, 2007According to L’Équipe, Peter Odemwingie has left LOSC. He will soon be playing for Lokomotiv Moscow. The official terms and information will be released tomorrow ...
Spartak Moscow Offers Lille 6 Million € for Odemwingie
By Julien | July 18th, 2007The LOSC office has recently received an offer of 6 million euros for Peter Odemwingie from Spartak Moscow. Is Odemwingie worth that much? I am ...
Seydoux’s Pointless Interview With Mercato 365, and Odemwingie Linked to Werder Bremen
By Julien | July 16th, 2007Mercato365.com recently interviewed Michel Seydoux, LOSC Lille Métropole club chairman. There wasn’t really anything interesting that Seydoux touched on in the interview (what a surprise!). ...
Eastern Europe Loves Odemwingie
By Julien | July 12th, 2007It turns out that Peter Odemwingie's move to VfB Stuttgart is not final. Supposely, they don't have the 9 million euros for him. Three Eastern ...
Latest Transfer News
By Julien | June 20th, 2007On Monaco's RMC radio, Lille's chairman, Michel Seydoux, revealed LOSC's budget for the new season. Lille's budget this season is 47 million euros, which is ...
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 ...
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: 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 ...
CSKA vs. Spartak: The Saga Continues
By Ivan | March 5th, 2007Great weekend! Apologies to all British football fans, but Liverpool - Man Yoo fight wasn't the most fabulous. First I've enjoyed goal of Alexander Kerzhakov ...
Champions Title Means No Need to Score
By Ivan | February 27th, 2007CSKA Moscow, Premier League champions and Russian Cup' last winners, lost in 5th round. Krylya Sovetov Samara beat them 2:0. Spartak Moscow, eternal rival of ...
Farewell UEFA Cup
By Ivan | February 22nd, 2007Both Moscow teams lost in first round of UEFA Cup play-off. CSKA was frustrated by Maccabi Haifa' fast goal. First leg was 0:0 so all the ...
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 ...
Start of a Season!
By Ivan | February 19th, 2007Usually there is nothing interesting about 18th February in Russia. But this year it's a start of season. Mighty Spartak and CSKA faced not so ...
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 ...
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