Jack Phillips

Goalkeeper - Druzhba
15 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jack Phillips

8 Edition

The Druzhba Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Still nobody has beaten Druzhba

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Jack Phillips signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jack Phillips and Druzhba agree another 3 years.

Squad

Words at Druzhba training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jakub Burkowski is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Tempers go at Druzhba

Eddi Tsanava was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Artem Terentjev

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Artur Zezarakhov

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Druzhba Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

8 unbeaten for Druzhba

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Druzhba did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Jack Phillips signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jack Phillips and Druzhba agree another 3 years.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Zaid Koblev

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Druzhba get the job done against Dinamo Makhachkala 2

A 1‑0 win over Dinamo Makhachkala 2, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Soslan Cherdzhiev falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Asker Delok stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.79 on the card, and the Druzhba support went home talking about one name.

Market

A long bet from Druzhba on Jack Phillips

He is 20, and nobody at Druzhba signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Artem Terentjev knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Druzhba, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Tamerlan Khachirov left out for tactical reasons at Druzhba

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief