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Crisis
Match25 Jan 2031
15 matches without a win for Podillia
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Podillia are no longer polite ones.
Match27 Jan 2031
Podillia are in real trouble now
Position 14, 20 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Boardroom27 Jan 2031
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Podillia
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market27 Jan 2031
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Podillia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad27 Jan 2031
The manager makes an example of Danylo Zaiets
“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.
Match25 Jan 2031
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Vorskla will be the happier side with the point.
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Crisis
Match28 Dec 2030
11 matches without a win for Podillia
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Podillia are no longer polite ones.
Match30 Dec 2030
Podillia sink to position 14
19 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Boardroom30 Dec 2030
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Podillia
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market30 Dec 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Podillia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Dec 2030
The manager makes an example of Danylo Zaiets
“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.
Match28 Dec 2030
Honours even between Podillia and Nyva
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Crisis
Boardroom2 Dec 2030
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Podillia
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match2 Dec 2030
Podillia are in real trouble now
Position 14, 16 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match30 Nov 2030
7 matches without a win for Podillia
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Podillia are no longer polite ones.
Market2 Dec 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad2 Dec 2030
“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.
Boardroom2 Dec 2030
$167.8K of the owner's money at Podillia
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Match30 Nov 2030
1-2 to Prykarpattia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad2 Dec 2030
The manager makes an example of Danylo Zaiets
“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.
Market2 Dec 2030
9 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
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Crisis
Market25 Nov 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match23 Nov 2030
6 matches without a win for Podillia
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Podillia are no longer polite ones.
Match23 Nov 2030
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Uneasy
Market28 Oct 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Oct 2030
“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.
Match26 Oct 2030
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Crisis
Match21 Sep 2030
8 matches without a win for Podillia
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Podillia are no longer polite ones.
Match23 Sep 2030
Podillia are in real trouble now
Position 15, 6 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market23 Sep 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Podillia can pretend not to have heard.
Match21 Sep 2030
2-4 to Victoriia Sumy, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad23 Sep 2030
“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.
The terraces23 Sep 2030
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad23 Sep 2030
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Whether it was the goalkeeper or the ten in front of him is the argument that will fill every conversation in town this week. 4 saves does not settle it either way.
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Uneasy
Market26 Aug 2030
Tim Wright hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Podillia can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Aug 2030
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Axel Alderweireld knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Match24 Aug 2030
A 1-1 draw with Bukovyna leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad26 Aug 2030
The manager makes an example of Tim Wright
“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.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Danylo Zaiets 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.
Squad26 Aug 2030
A first senior shirt for Pierre Borg
Every debut is a small story about the future: Pierre Borg, 18 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
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Crisis
Market19 Aug 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match17 Aug 2030
1-2 to Prykarpattia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom19 Aug 2030
No signings allowed at Podillia
The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.
Squad19 Aug 2030
The manager makes an example of Danylo Zaiets
“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.
Boardroom19 Aug 2030
The Podillia debt reaches $14.6M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Boardroom19 Aug 2030
Wages eat 93% of everything Podillia earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market19 Aug 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Podillia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad19 Aug 2030
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Podillia have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad19 Aug 2030
At 32 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at Podillia are won quietly and lost loudly.