The Rotor 2 Post
Match30 Nov 2030
The wait goes on for Rotor 2
8 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.
Squad2 Dec 2030
Ilya Bogdanov makes it 100
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
The dugout2 Dec 2030
The manager makes an example of Miroslav Obukhov
“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.
Player ratings2 Dec 2030
Nobody could get near Vyacheslav Raspopin
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match30 Nov 2030
Rotor 2 and Kvant take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout2 Dec 2030
Aleksey Goncharov knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Aleksey Goncharov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad2 Dec 2030
Rotor 2 have started building around Vyacheslav Raspopin
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
The dugout2 Dec 2030
No place in the plan for Vyacheslav Raspopin
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad2 Dec 2030
Ilya Bogdanov says his piece
“If we are going to be beaten, let it not be because somebody in here could not be bothered.” He stood up and said it in front of everybody, which is a thing a squad remembers about a man for years.
In brief
- Squad Questions about Ilya Bogdanov on the training pitch
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Znamya Truda at home