Marked for Davit Chankotadze
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match26 Oct 2026
Every point is an argument now for Guria
Position 16 and 6 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Guria will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Guria have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Guria training over how hard people work
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Squad
When it matters, Levan Isiani plays
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Guria's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Guria has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Guria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
Sapovnela left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Sandro Bakhia dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.