Marked for Evgeniy Tishkov
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout10 May 2027
“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.
Match8 May 2027
Still nobody has beaten Gomel
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad10 May 2027
Pavel Pashevich 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Egor Yudenko in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout10 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Igor Zayats, and the manager let it.
The dugout10 May 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout10 May 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Ivan Filipenko after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Match8 May 2027
Point won or two lost for Gomel?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Lida? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Looking ahead10 May 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Daniil Silinskiy’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Gomel needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Steady
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.66, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market26 Apr 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gomel they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match24 Apr 2027
Three points for Gomel, 3‑1 the final word against Bumprom Gomel in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Gomel
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pavel Pashevich was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Gomel
Igor Zayats 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.
The terraces26 Apr 2027
At 23 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.
The dugout26 Apr 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Evgeniy Tishkov and Gomel agree another 4 years.
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Steady
Squad12 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pavel Pashevich 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.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Stanislav Kleschuk is on it.
Market12 Apr 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Oleg Kovalev has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Gomel.
The dugout12 Apr 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Gomel will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pavel Pashevich 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
37 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Gomel
Georgiy Kukushkin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Market21 Dec 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gomel, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market21 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Timofey Simanenka’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Gomel will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Daniil Makhnach has written the date down.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timofey Simanenka 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hleb Korzun has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hleb Filipenko has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Uladzislau Kislyak has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hleb Rios has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Gomel
Oleg Kovalev 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Pavel Pashevich trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Evgeniy Tishkov
“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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Gomel will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.