The Dila Post
Squad16 Sep 2030
Davit Kereselidze damages knee ligaments — 91 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 91 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.
Match14 Sep 2030
Dila make home a hard place to visit
17 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match11 Sep 2030
The cup run ends for Dila
1‑2 against Dinamo Batumi, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings16 Sep 2030
Emmanuel Boansi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings16 Sep 2030
Both of them Shota Shekiladze's — 9.08
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.08, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Defences have started doubling up on Shota Shekiladze
21 goals and a season average of 7.46 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market16 Sep 2030
Only the photograph left for Emmanuel Boansi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Emmanuel Boansi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dila the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Tempers go at Dila
Shota Shekiladze 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.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Liam Evans arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Liam Evans has, at Dila, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
In brief
- Match Shota Shekiladze the difference as Dila beat Dinamo Tbilisi
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Nikoloz Mali
- Boardroom Wages eat 103% of everything Dila earn