From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Yegor Mosin
“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.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Nobody left the Ural 2 dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad4 Oct 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Vladimir Pavlov knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Yegor Mosin The manager makes an example of Yegor Mosin
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Steady
Match29 Mar 2027
Ural 2 are in among the leadersPosition 1 and 41 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Vladimir Pavlov : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ural 2 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market29 Mar 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Mikhail Beshtoev may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Steady
Match1 Mar 2027
Ural 2 are in among the leadersPosition 1 and 41 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Ivan Ryzhkov 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 Ural 2 , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Match31 Oct 2026
10 unbeaten for Ural 2
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Ural 2 did not have in the autumn.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match31 Oct 2026
KDV Tomsk made Ural 2 work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match17 Oct 2026
8 unbeaten for Ural 2
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Ural 2 did not have in the autumn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Artem Kulikov
“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.