The Obod Sentinel
Squad2 Aug 2038
A knee injury of the worst kind for Adhamjon Musulmonov
84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Obod lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The terraces2 Aug 2038
Anger at Obod 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.
Boardroom2 Aug 2038
The scrutiny sharpens at Obod
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Obod is running low.
Boardroom2 Aug 2038
Mirzo Mirzaev has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Obod can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad2 Aug 2038
Eldor Mirzaev breaks a bone — 34 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match31 Jul 2038
8 matches without a win for Obod
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Obod are no longer polite ones.
Market2 Aug 2038
Jasur Nematov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Obod can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings2 Aug 2038
Bobur Ismailov scores twice — 8.02
Two goals and a mark of 8.02 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match31 Jul 2038
No clean sheets in sight for Obod
7 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
In brief
- Squad Bobur Ismailov signs a new deal
- Match Sogdiana take the points off Obod
- Squad The manager makes an example of Zafar Sa'dullayev