The Kokand 1912 Gazette
Player ratings28 May 2035
Shahzod Akramov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match28 May 2035
Kokand 1912 are in real trouble now
Position 14, 10 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.
Boardroom28 May 2035
The numbers do not look good at Kokand 1912
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad28 May 2035
Eldor Hasanov: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Kokand 1912 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad28 May 2035
Kabelo Nkgwesa 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 Kokand 1912 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 May 2035
Yehor Kondratiuk 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.
The terraces28 May 2035
The crowd has taken to Jaloliddin Fayzullaev
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad28 May 2035
Amir Ganiev out for 28 days
The medical room confirms 28 days on the sidelines for Amir Ganiev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom28 May 2035
The Kokand 1912 debt reaches $22.9M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
In brief
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Jaloliddin Fayzullaev
- Player ratings A day to forget for Nawaf Al-Shammari
- Match Kokand 1912 and Shortan cancel each other out