MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30: Home is...wherever you can find an open stadium - Inside World Football TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1: Analysis: Hulk shines against Spartak - Licence to Roam FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4: Meltdown in Moscow - More Than Arshavin How I Started Enjoying the RPL - Russian Football News SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6: The Soldier's Tango: A Homage to CSKA in Catalonia - Futbolgrad … [Read more...]
Meltdown in Moscow
October 4, 2013 by 2 Comments
On Wednesday night, Russian champions CSKA hosted their first home game of the Champions League campaign, with Czech side Viktoria Plzen the visitors. Except, of course, that they didn't. Zenit did, their Petrovsky pitch being used for the second European night in succession after the owners' goalless draw against Austria Wien. In many ways, it was a reasonable outcome for the Muscovites - initial proposals had seen Krasnodar mooted as a venue, several hundred miles further south. With their … [Read more...]
