Central Midfielder - Spartaks U20
29 May 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for

12 Edition

The Spartaks Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for a squad player

16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Spartaks lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Roberts Tarasovs is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Adeyemo Bolaji 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 Spartaks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Spartaks Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

a squad player damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.

Squad

Home is on George Micheal's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Spartaks are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Tempers go at Spartaks

Adeyemo Bolaji 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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Spartaks Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for a squad player

30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Spartaks lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Chinedu Chukwu wants to go home

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

Squad

Chinedu Chukwu 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 Spartaks this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Spartaks training over how hard people work
  • The dugout The manager plants his flag on Alvis Ikaunieks