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Anzhi – Kremlin PR in the North Caucasus
By David McArdle -
Word association with the North Caucasus and with Dagestan in particular is changing. Instead of “insurgency”, “bombings”, “terro ...
Karpaty Lviv – the Pride of Galicia
By Manuel Veth -
Lviv and its football club Karpaty are a curious case: a city that boasts such a multi-cultural past has become the centre of natio ...
Sheriff Tiraspol – Moldova’s De Facto Conquerors
By David McArdle -
For the past twelve seasons, Moldova’s top division - Divizia Naţională - has been monopolised by FC Sheriff Tiraspol, who have wo ...
Eduard Streltsov – The Russian Pele
By Alastair Watt -
Outside the former Soviet Union, the name Eduard Streltsov means little to anyone other than scholars of the beautiful game. Few h ...
Georgian Football’s Grounds for Concern
By George Mirashvili -
If the announcement that the 2015 UEFA Super Cup was to be held in Tbilisi’s Mikheil Meskhi stadium (below) raised a few eyebr ...
A Brazilian in Belarus – Renan Bardini Bressan
By David McArdle -
Safely avoiding any tasteless (not to mention obvious) gags referencing Sting’s Englishman in New York, like a football chant that ...
