Playing with history – The “G” factor
In December, a film critic friend of mine brought me to a private screening of “The Water Diviner”, or “Elderly Gladiator with a Happy Ending”, as she named it. Apart from the tragically untalented...
View ArticleRussian Premier League – Last day drama
If we’d been given the permutation that would leave two clubs fighting for the title on the last day and five clubs in danger of relegation, you’d have gotten the same odds as Leicester City winning in...
View ArticleGood, bad, ugly – Moscow football club style
Lokomotiv Moscow’s last home game of the season was against crisis club Mordovia Saransk, who needed a win for a relegation play-off, and the choice of which Moscow football club to watch was narrowed...
View ArticleMoney matters – fair pay for play in Russia
“The salary a player gets should be entirely dependent on the quality of his game,” he said, and the world shook. When a lickspittle beneficiary of gross nepotism makes, usually the nation reverberates...
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