Marked for Nenad Tomović
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cukaricki this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Cukaricki training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marko Docić 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
The goals have deserted Cukaricki
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Cukaricki can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Christian Bos and Cukaricki agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Nenad Tomović
“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.
Match9 Jan 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Vojvodina defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market11 Jan 2027
Cukaricki have let the market know Miloš Cvetković can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market11 Jan 2027
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Matija Malekinušić arrives from Novi Pazar with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
Back issues
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Steady
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Cukaricki do not lose
12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cukaricki this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Cukaricki told Nenad Tomović something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Miloš Cvetković dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match10 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. OFK Beograd will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Match5 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Cukaricki did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Edin Ajdinović 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nenad Tomović 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Marko Docić
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Marko Docić has come out of that comparison in the side, and Cukaricki have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Cukaricki through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over Mladost Lucani, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cukaricki win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 95th minute. Mladost Lucani will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Cukaricki did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Cukaricki, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cukaricki this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Cukaricki training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marko Docić 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Uroš Miladinović has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Uroš Miladinović’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cukaricki.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Srđan Mijailović 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Cukaricki training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nenad Tomović 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Miloš Cvetković
“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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.66 on the card, and the Cukaricki support went home talking about one name.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market17 Aug 2026
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Stefan Ranđelović is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nenad Tomović 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 Nenad Tomović trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Cukaricki win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Radnicki 1923 will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Marko Docić has been here 10 seasons
381 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marko Docić and Cukaricki agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cukaricki this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Srđan Mijailović has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Cukaricki.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Lazar Mijović has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Cukaricki have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lazar Mijović. 1‑0 against Radnicki 1923, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.