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Edition
The Shirak Sentinel
26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
The knee: Zaur Sadaev out for 161 days
161 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Shirak lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Shirak
Rudik Mkrtchyan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Shirak training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rafik Misakyan 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.
In brief
- Squad Arman Spertsyan out for 33 days
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Suren Tsarukyan
- The dugout Tigran Sumbulyan gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Wilson Barrios has been promised minutes