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“All nationalistic distinctions – all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect – are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.”
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George Orwell
WORDS: ROB DILLON
The ups and downs of Aleksandr Kerzhakov’s career could fill a Russian novel, but he popped up when it mattered in this World Cup to salvage a point from an opening game to forget against South Korea. Yet that record-equalling goal was just the latest episode in his long-running international saga…
WORDS: ROBERT DILLON
Scoring goals for fun for both club and country, the Armenian who grew up in Azerbaijan and made his name in the USA has yet to make it onto the radar of most British football fans. We think it’s high time you discovered the unique story and goalscoring prowess of Spartak Moscow’s Yura Movsisyan…
WORDS: ROBERT DILLON
After big-name appointment Slaven Bilic failed to stabilise an inefficient Lokomotiv operation in Moscow, the railwaymen have turned to the quietly confident Leonid Kuchuk this season, after he steered unfancied Kuban Krasnodar into Europe last time out. Could he be the answer?
WORDS: ROBERT DILLON
Russia is still the Churchillian enigma of old, still barely fathomable to the Western mind, but for this Englishman, there is a certain appeal to the diverse cultures and cities represented in the Russian football leagues. In the image of the statue of Mother Russia overlooking the crumbling stadium of a faltering Rotor Volgograd, a student from Grimsby found his own, imperfect footballing Mecca…
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