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284 Edition

The Rubin Yalta Post

5 Jan 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The terraces5 Jan 2032

Anger at Rubin Yalta spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match3 Jan 2032

Rubin Yalta strike at the death to beat Angusht

There were 88 minutes on the clock and Angusht had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Rubin Yalta did not stop to explain themselves.

Market5 Jan 2032

Hovhannes Hovhannisyan puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Rubin Yalta, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings5 Jan 2032

Artem Kulikov goes up and wins it — 7.90

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.90 for the rest of it.

Player ratings5 Jan 2032

Khalit Ozdoev pops up at the right end — 7.61

7.61, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad5 Jan 2032

A falling-out at Rubin Yalta

Kirill Kon' and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad5 Jan 2032

A row about effort at Rubin Yalta

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexandr Smirnov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match3 Jan 2032

Artem Kulikov sends Rubin Yalta past Angusht

It finished 2‑1, and it was Artem Kulikov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Rubin Yalta.

The terraces5 Jan 2032

The crowd has taken to Fredrik Selnaes

At 18 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.

In brief

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283 Edition

The Rubin Yalta Post

29 Dec 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad29 Dec 2031

A falling-out at Rubin Yalta

Artem Kulikov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad29 Dec 2031

Alexandr Smirnov 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.

Squad29 Dec 2031

Tristan Hoffmann reaches 100 appearances

100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Player ratings29 Dec 2031

Timofey Sitnikov was the difference for Rubin Yalta

Marked 7.48. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout29 Dec 2031

The manager makes an example of Vyacheslav Purak

“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.

The dugout29 Dec 2031

Interim Coach on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Interim Coach after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Match27 Dec 2031

Point won or two lost for Rubin Yalta?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Torpedo Miass? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

The dugout29 Dec 2031

Rubin Yalta keep their word to Fedor Kudryavtsev

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Looking ahead29 Dec 2031

Khalit Ozdoev faces his old club

Angusht next, and one man in the Rubin Yalta dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

272 Edition

The Rubin Yalta Post

13 Oct 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The terraces13 Oct 2031

The mood at Rubin Yalta has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad13 Oct 2031

A falling-out at Rubin Yalta

Kirill Kon' and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad13 Oct 2031

Words at Rubin Yalta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Smirnov 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.

Market13 Oct 2031

Rubin Yalta and Kirill Kon' are talking past each other

“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.

Squad13 Oct 2031

Fredrik Selnaes wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Rubin Yalta can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Market13 Oct 2031

No place for Hovhannes Hovhannisyan in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Hovhannes Hovhannisyan has his answer from Rubin Yalta; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout13 Oct 2031

Vyacheslav Purak gets picked when it counts

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 Vyacheslav Purak is on it.

Market13 Oct 2031

The shop window has Khalit Ozdoev in it

Rubin Yalta have let the market know Khalit Ozdoev can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

The dugout13 Oct 2031

Sam Emmelen asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief