The Shirak Sentinel
Squad3 Mar 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Vardan Tovmasyan
131 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Shirak lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom3 Mar 2031
Shirak put Arman Grigoryan on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom3 Mar 2031
The Shirak board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Player ratings3 Mar 2031
A brace, and Maksym Stadnik takes the afternoon — 8.01
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Maksym Stadnik provided it, and the 8.01 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match1 Mar 2031
5 matches without a win for Shirak
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Shirak are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom3 Mar 2031
The Shirak board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Squad3 Mar 2031
Rafik Misakyan 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 Shirak this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Mar 2031
6 goals as Shirak and Ararat-Armenia go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Shirak and Ararat-Armenia, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Boardroom3 Mar 2031
16 academy players handed senior numbers at Shirak
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
In brief
- Squad Donald Kodia falls out with a teammate over standards
- Market One of our own: Sargis Hovhannisyan joins the Shirak first team
- Market Shirak promote Hakob Haroyan from within