The Spartak Kostroma Gazette
Squad21 Aug 2028
78 days out for Lynneeker after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Spartak Kostroma will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The terraces21 Aug 2028
Anger at Spartak Kostroma spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match19 Aug 2028
A hiding for Spartak Kostroma
Beaten 0‑3 by Ufa, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
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Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Ruslan Cherviakov beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad21 Aug 2028
The step up is real for Denis Bokov
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A falling-out at Spartak Kostroma
Đorđe Pantelić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Nikolay Tarasov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market21 Aug 2028
Spartak Kostroma promote Grigory Plotnikov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Grigory Plotnikov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Gennady Khrenov steps up from the Spartak Kostroma academy
- Market Rostislav Vasin steps up from the Spartak Kostroma academy
- Market One of our own: Ivan Yermolov joins the Spartak Kostroma first team