Marked for Silver Antonov
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Mar 2030
Tempers go at Parnu
Arseniy Migdalenok 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.
Squad11 Mar 2030
The manager makes an example of Rauno Klavan
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad11 Mar 2030
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kostas Charalabous 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.
Squad11 Mar 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Martin Ojamaa and Parnu agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings11 Mar 2030
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match9 Mar 2030
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad16 Apr 2029
Artur Tamm breaks a bone — 40 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match16 Apr 2029
Parnu are in real trouble now
Position 8, 6 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market16 Apr 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad16 Apr 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Apr 2029
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad16 Apr 2029
“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.
Squad16 Apr 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Brent Vassiljev commits to Parnu for another 3 years.
Player ratings16 Apr 2029
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings16 Apr 2029
5.55 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
In brief
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Off the pace: Markus Pikk
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An afternoon Markus Puri will want back
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Boardroom
The Parnu production line keeps running
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Mar 2029
Artur Tamm breaks a bone — 68 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 68 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match17 Mar 2029
The wait goes on for Parnu
4 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.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Tempers go at Parnu
Moses Mphekgoane 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.
Squad19 Mar 2029
The manager makes an example of Nikita Ojamaa
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad19 Mar 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Karol Sorga and Parnu agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
A costly moment from Artur Tamm
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Parnu, and it is a cruel one.
Match17 Mar 2029
Honours even between Parnu and Paide
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
5.43. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 Dec 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Parnu can pretend not to have heard.
Squad25 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Dec 2028
Taijo Vassiljev has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Parnu will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.