Marked for Yahor Yablonski
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Oct 2027
Yahor Yablonski damages knee ligaments — 17 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Anton Noyok 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Egor Korzun 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.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Oct 2027
Yahor Yablonski damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market18 Oct 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Lokomotiv Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market18 Oct 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lokomotiv Gomel they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Oct 2027
Yahor Yablonski damages knee ligaments — 31 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 31 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom11 Oct 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Lokomotiv Gomel now.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anton Noyok 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.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Oct 2027
Yahor Yablonski damages knee ligaments — 38 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lokomotiv Gomel may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Lokomotiv Gomel is running low.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
An order from above at Lokomotiv Gomel: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yan Korzun and Lokomotiv Gomel agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Oct 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Squad27 Sep 2027
Yahor Yablonski damages knee ligaments — 45 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 45 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Sergei Arlouski: 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.” Lokomotiv Gomel have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Eduard Balanovich 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.
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Uneasy
Squad20 Sep 2027
Yahor Yablonski damages knee ligaments — 52 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 52 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market20 Sep 2027
“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.
Market20 Sep 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lokomotiv Gomel they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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Uneasy
Squad13 Sep 2027
Yahor Yablonski damages knee ligaments — 59 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 59 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market13 Sep 2027
“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 Lokomotiv Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market13 Sep 2027
The deal that would have taken Pavel Laptev to Molodechno has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Lokomotiv Gomel with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Anton Noyok 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.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Lokomotiv Gomel now.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Egor Korzun 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad6 Sep 2027
Yahor Yablonski damages knee ligaments — 66 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 66 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market6 Sep 2027
The offer from Molodechno for Pavel Laptev was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Anton Noyok 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Egor Korzun 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Wages eat 113% of everything Lokomotiv Gomel 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Lokomotiv Gomel told Ivan Martynovich something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yahor Yablonski
74 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokomotiv Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A season average of 7.41 with 25 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad30 Aug 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anton Noyok 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
Three points for Lokomotiv Gomel, 2‑1 the final word against Slonim in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces30 Aug 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Yauhen Noyok has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Eduard Balanovich was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.13. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Ninety minutes of Anton Noyok at his very best
Marked 8.11. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Lokomotiv Gomel.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad23 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yahor Yablonski
81 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokomotiv Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market23 Aug 2027
“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 Lokomotiv Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market23 Aug 2027
Pavel Laptev has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lokomotiv Gomel they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Egor Korzun 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Yan Korzun gets it from the manager
“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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Ostrovets are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Lokomotiv Gomel will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Vitaliy Nekhaichik 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad16 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yahor Yablonski
88 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokomotiv Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match14 Aug 2027
2‑8 to Niva, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market16 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lokomotiv Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
A brace, and Eduard Balanovich takes the afternoon — 8.74
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Eduard Balanovich provided it, and the 8.74 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A season average of 7.41 with 24 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market16 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match14 Aug 2027
10 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Lokomotiv Gomel and Niva in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Lokomotiv Gomel now.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yahor Yablonski
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokomotiv Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market9 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Stanislau Filipenko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lokomotiv Gomel the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Aug 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Anton Noyok 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Martynovich, and the manager let it.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
112% of the income goes out in wages at Lokomotiv Gomel
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad2 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yahor Yablonski
102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokomotiv Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Aug 2027
22 goals and a season average of 7.36. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market2 Aug 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lokomotiv Gomel they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Eduard Balanovich 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Egor Korzun 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad26 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yahor Yablonski
109 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokomotiv Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market26 Jul 2027
“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 Lokomotiv Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Eduard Balanovich
21 goals and a season average of 7.33 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market26 Jul 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lokomotiv Gomel is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Anton Noyok 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yahor Yablonski
116 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokomotiv Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match17 Jul 2027
Eduard Balanovich had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Orsha were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A season average of 7.33 with 20 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market19 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lokomotiv Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market19 Jul 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Lokomotiv Gomel have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Ninety minutes of Anton Noyok at his very best
Marked 8.18. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Lokomotiv Gomel.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Jul 2027
Yahor Yablonski damages knee ligaments — 124 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 124 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match10 Jul 2027
1‑6 against Neman, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Eduard Balanovich
19 goals and a season average of 7.31 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Anton Noyok 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Jul 2027
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Lokomotiv Gomel and Neman in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
128% of the income goes out in wages at Lokomotiv Gomel
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
Nobody left the Lokomotiv Gomel 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
A brace, and Eduard Balanovich takes the afternoon — 9.25
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Eduard Balanovich provided it, and the 9.25 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Anton Skavysh, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.99
A mark of 7.99 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match5 Jun 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Lokomotiv Gomel and Osipovichi, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad7 Jun 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anton Noyok 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.
Match5 Jun 2027
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad24 May 2027
Anton Klimovich damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad24 May 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lokomotiv Gomel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad24 May 2027
Anton Noyok 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Egor Korzun 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.
Match22 May 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad17 May 2027
Anton Klimovich damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.95 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match15 May 2027
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Lokomotiv Gomel and Niva in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad17 May 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 May 2027
Anton Noyok 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.
The terraces17 May 2027
At 16 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.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Ivan Martynovich was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.35. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Boardroom17 May 2027
Wages eat 125% of everything Lokomotiv Gomel 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 May 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Anton Klimovich
42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokomotiv Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Anton Skavysh, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.06
A mark of 8.06 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market3 May 2027
“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.
Market3 May 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lokomotiv Gomel they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad3 May 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 Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 May 2027
Egor Korzun 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.
The terraces3 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Anton Skavysh has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match1 May 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Anton Skavysh’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lokomotiv Gomel.
Squad3 May 2027
Yahor Yablonski named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Yahor Yablonski is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad26 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Anton Klimovich
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokomotiv Gomel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Apr 2027
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Eduard Balanovich 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 Apr 2027
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anton Noyok 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
1‑2 to Molodechno, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Apr 2027
Anton Klimovich damages knee ligaments — 56 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 56 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.21 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market19 Apr 2027
“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 Lokomotiv Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Anton Noyok 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.
Match17 Apr 2027
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Lokomotiv Gomel and Orsha in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Egor Korzun 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.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Ninety minutes of Anton Noyok at his very best
Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Lokomotiv Gomel.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
121% of the income goes out in wages at Lokomotiv Gomel
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match17 Apr 2027
4‑4, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.71, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Lokomotiv Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Anton Noyok. 5‑4 against Bumprom Gomel, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Match29 Aug 2026
9 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Lokomotiv Gomel and Bumprom Gomel in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Egor Korzun 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“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.