The Kolkheti Sentinel
Squad15 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Davit Shengelia
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kolkheti lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match13 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for Kolkheti
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
No sign of nerves from Kakha Zivzivadze at 21 — 8.18
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kakha Zivzivadze did not need any: 8.18, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Kolkheti
Zurab Lobjanidze 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Kolkheti training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Davit Chakvetadze 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.
The terraces15 Mar 2027
The crowd has taken to Kakha Zivzivadze
At 21 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Archil Janelidze 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.
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
Irakli Janelidze wants to come home
“I did not go to Sapovnela to sit and watch. I want to come back to Kolkheti and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Match13 Mar 2027
Kakha Zivzivadze rescues a point for Kolkheti
It needed Kakha Zivzivadze to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Samtredia, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- Player ratings The one thing Saba Mchedlidze could not do
- Player ratings A day to forget for Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
- Player ratings Andrey Karimov could not find anything