The Podillia Courier
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Anton Savin, 36, rolls back the years — 8.00
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.00 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Pavlo Savchuk says Podillia went back on their word
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Podillia
Anton Savin 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Christian Huérfano 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Anton Savin the difference as Podillia beat Feniks
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Anton Savin. 2‑0 against Feniks, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Yaroslav Kvasov
“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.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Yevhenii Riazantsev
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Christian Huérfano
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Yevhenii Riazantsev
- The terraces Yevhenii Riazantsev has his own song now