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RESPECT: Samba Speaks Out Over Zenit Fans Non-White Manifesto
Liverpool face Zenit in the Europa League as the Russian team’s fans call for non-white and gay players to be excluded from their club
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Liverpool face Zenit in the Europa League as the Russian team’s fans call for non-white and gay players to be excluded from their club
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Guus Hiddink’s Anzhi were frustrated in their push for Europe as they were held to a goal-less draw by CSKA Moscow
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Former Blackburn player Chris Samba was the latest to suffer at the hands of racists in the country which will host the World Cup Finals in 2018, with a banana thrown at the central defender during Anzhi Makhachkala’s 1-0 defeat at Lokomotiv Moscow.
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Roman Pavlyuchenko has moved from Tottenham Hotspur to Lokomotiv Moscow, and with the Russian transfer window not closing until February 24 and Arshavin and Tevez still in limbo, there could be many more players heading east.
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As the RPL splits into two groups the top two dropped points to allow Moscow’s Spartak and Dynamo to close the gap.
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Alex Jackson on Round 28 of the Russian Premier League with the big match seeing CSKA Moscow beat cash-rich Anzhi Makhachkala with Seydou Doumbia grabbing a hat-trick as Samuel Eto’o registers his almost customary goal.
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Zenit joined Lokomotiv, Rubin and Amkar Perm as the weekend’s big winners despite the St.Pete’s side only earning a point
moreAs the RPL returns from a mid-summer break, old-boy Loskov helped new Loko coach, Couceiro, to a winning start, Semshov passed 100 goals, Zenit beat Anzhi in the “Clash-of-the-Cash”, Spartak began the ‘second half’ of the season with a win and CSKA cruised into a seven point lead at the top.
moreThis week, ‘Blondie’ managed a surprise performance at the Luzhniki and despite late nerves The Police(men) could not stop not losing
moreAlex Jackson rounds up another eventful week from the Russian Premier League as Brazilian legend Roberto Carlos got the first goal of his Dagestani adventure
moreAt the end of this season we’ll be in the twentieth year of an independent Russian league that first kicked off in 1992, after the USSR’s dissolution. And, of course, no anniversary may be allowed to pass without celebratory Best XIs being penned
moreAs the Russian league emerges, blinking, from it’s winter slumber, the Big Three all win, Spartak cock-up and the upstarts never quite got started. Alex Jackson reviews the first week of the new season
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