David Atkinson

Left Forward - Ural 2
3 Feb 2036
Sunday
Process

Marked for David Atkinson

495 Edition

The Ural 2 Chronicle

21 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Ural 2

Pavlo Mykhalchuk 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.

Squad

Achille Ferrigno 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.

Squad

Achille Ferrigno knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ural 2, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
486 Edition

The Ural 2 Chronicle

19 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Vasily Anokhin

44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ural 2 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Tommaso Gabriele 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 Ural 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Ural 2 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Atkinson 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