Marked for Rahimjon Davronov
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces11 Sep 2028
The mood at Andijon has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Match11 Sep 2028
Andijon are in real trouble now
Position 14, 25 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match9 Sep 2028
4 matches without a win for Andijon
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Andijon are no longer polite ones.
Squad11 Sep 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces11 Sep 2028
At 23 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sardor Azimov 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Asilbek Aliev and Andijon agree another 5 years.
Player ratings11 Sep 2028
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.72 on the card, and the Andijon support went home talking about one name.
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Crisis
Boardroom28 Aug 2028
Pressure builds in the Andijon boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match26 Aug 2028
Nowhere to hide for Andijon
0‑3 against Pakhtakor, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad28 Aug 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Aug 2028
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces14 Aug 2028
The mood at Andijon has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Match12 Aug 2028
The wait goes on for Andijon
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Saleh Al-Qumayzi: 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.” Andijon have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Aug 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Aug 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Damir Temirov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Loan watch14 Aug 2028
21 appearances away from home and 7 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Crisis
Match29 Jul 2028
7 matches without a win for Andijon
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Andijon are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom31 Jul 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Andijon
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Andijon is running low.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad31 Jul 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Jul 2028
Andijon come up short against AGMK
AGMK left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Jul 2028
“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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sardor Azimov 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.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
The terraces31 Jul 2028
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Crisis
Match22 Jul 2028
Andijon throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Bunyodkor the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Andijon will enjoy reviewing.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.40, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match22 Jul 2028
No end in sight to Andijon's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Andijon has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad24 Jul 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Andijon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad24 Jul 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Jul 2028
Bunyodkor left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Imeda Ashortia 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.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
Marked 5.69, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces17 Jul 2028
The mood at Andijon has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Match15 Jul 2028
No end in sight to Andijon's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Andijon has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad17 Jul 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad17 Jul 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Match15 Jul 2028
The goals have deserted Andijon
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Andijon can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad17 Jul 2028
“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.
Match15 Jul 2028
Neftchi left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
Pressure builds in the Andijon boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad3 Jul 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Jul 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Muhammadkarim Toirov commits to Andijon for another 4 years.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rahimjon Davronov, and the manager let it.
Match1 Jul 2028
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
Andijon sign 7 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
Player ratings3 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
$160.9K taken back off the Andijon table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
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Upbeat
Match14 Jun 2028
Andijon through in the cup
A 3‑1 win over AGMK, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
The terraces19 Jun 2028
The mood at Andijon has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
Two goals and a mark of 8.53 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad19 Jun 2028
A fracture rules Amir Suyunov out for 23 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Andijon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
7.93, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad19 Jun 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces19 Jun 2028
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Fazliddin Zuhriddinov 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Islom To'xtaxo'jayev, and the manager let it.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sardor Azimov 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces22 May 2028
The mood at Andijon has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Player ratings22 May 2028
Two goals and a mark of 8.22 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad22 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 May 2028
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Match20 May 2028
Bukhara made Andijon work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad22 May 2028
“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.
Squad22 May 2028
Rahimjon Davronov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Andijon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Player ratings22 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market22 May 2028
The name of Rahimjon Davronov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Andijon say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match22 Apr 2028
14 matches without a win for Andijon
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Andijon are no longer polite ones.
The terraces24 Apr 2028
The mood at Andijon has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad24 Apr 2028
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Apr 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ibrohim Yo'ldoshev, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.91 on the card, and the Andijon support went home talking about one name.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Saleh Al-Qumayzi 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.
Match22 Apr 2028
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match18 Mar 2028
The wait goes on for Andijon
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad20 Mar 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Martin Boakye 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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Imeda Ashortia 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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
“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.
Loan watch20 Mar 2028
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Andijon, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match18 Mar 2028
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Nasaf will be the happier side with the point.
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Uneasy
Match4 Mar 2028
No end in sight to Andijon's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Andijon has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nemanja Ćalasan and Andijon agree another 3 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Graduation day at Andijon
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market6 Mar 2028
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nodir Ismailov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market6 Mar 2028
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Odil Ganiev has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market6 Mar 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Doniyor Hasanov 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Amir Suyunov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Crisis
Market14 Feb 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Miraziz Mahamadaliyev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Andijon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Feb 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sardor Azimov 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Farhod Ganiev has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Martin Boakye 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 Feb 2028
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Imeda Ashortia 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
“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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market7 Feb 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Martin Boakye signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Crisis
Boardroom24 Jan 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Andijon
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Andijon is running low.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Martin Boakye 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.
Market24 Jan 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Andijon have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Sardor Azimov 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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Andijon told Rahimjon Davronov something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Crisis
Squad17 Jan 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market17 Jan 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Imeda Ashortia 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad10 Jan 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market10 Jan 2028
Mashal come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Andijon did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Imeda Ashortia 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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Jan 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market10 Jan 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Martin Boakye signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad20 Dec 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Andijon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Martin Boakye 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Imeda Ashortia 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad6 Dec 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Andijon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom6 Dec 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market6 Dec 2027
“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 Andijon, and it is not being withdrawn.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad22 Nov 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 14 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Andijon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Imeda Ashortia 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Oct 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 44 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad25 Oct 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Andijon have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Martin Boakye 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Oct 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad18 Oct 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 Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Imeda Ashortia 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Oct 2027
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Léo Nannetti 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market27 Sep 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match25 Sep 2027
5 matches without a win for Andijon
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Andijon are no longer polite ones.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Aleksandre Andronikashvili 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Imeda Ashortia 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Rahimjon Davronov will call it something else in private.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Marked 7.68. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match25 Sep 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Squad30 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Andijon have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market30 Aug 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Martin Boakye 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Doniyor Abdumannopov 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 terraces30 Aug 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Léo Nannetti 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
0‑1 to Pakhtakor, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
4.59 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Uneasy
Market23 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Three points for Andijon, 2‑1 the final word against Qizilqum in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Marked 8.57 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The team sheet said everything about Rahimjon Davronov
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Rahimjon Davronov.
Squad23 Aug 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 Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Match31 Jul 2027
Whatever happens, Andijon do not lose
16 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.
Match31 Jul 2027
Martin Boakye had done his part in building a 4-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and AGMK were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Squad2 Aug 2027
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match31 Jul 2027
4 matches without a win for Andijon
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Andijon are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Martin Boakye 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Imeda Ashortia 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.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Marked 8.74 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Imeda Ashortia, and the manager let it.
Match31 Jul 2027
Honours even between Andijon and AGMK
4‑4, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Steady
Match24 Jul 2027
15 unbeaten for Andijon
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 15 matches without defeat is a foundation Andijon did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
A brace, and Humoyunmirzo Iminov takes the afternoon — 8.21
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Humoyunmirzo Iminov provided it, and the 8.21 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad26 Jul 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 Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nemanja Ćalasan, and the manager let it.
Loan watch26 Jul 2027
“I watch every Andijon game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Bhayangkara Presisi runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Match24 Jul 2027
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market26 Jul 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Martin Boakye’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Match17 Jul 2027
Whatever happens, Andijon do not lose
14 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.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
A chastening introduction for Mirkomil Murodov — 5.60
It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.60 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Martin Boakye 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Doniyor Abdumannopov 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“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.
Loan watch19 Jul 2027
“I watch every Andijon game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Navbahor runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Upbeat
Match3 Jul 2027
12 unbeaten for Andijon
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 12 matches without defeat is a foundation Andijon did not have in the autumn.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Imeda Ashortia 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.
Match3 Jul 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sardor Azimov. 1‑0 against Nasaf, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Odilbek Abdumajidov 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
9 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.
Loan watch5 Jul 2027
“I did not go to Shortan to sit and watch. I want to come back to Andijon and fight for my place.” 11 appearances in 24 matches say the rest.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
A mark of 7.60, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Too much change too quickly at Andijon
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Andijon sign 6 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
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Steady
Match19 Jun 2027
10 unbeaten for Andijon
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Andijon did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
Sogdiana pay $84.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Doniyor Abdumannopov 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.
Match19 Jun 2027
Mashal made Andijon work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“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.
Loan watch21 Jun 2027
“I watch every Andijon game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Navbahor runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Marked 7.65. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Uneasy
Squad24 May 2027
Martin Boakye 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.
Match22 May 2027
Whatever happens, Andijon do not lose
6 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Imeda Ashortia 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.
Squad24 May 2027
“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.
Loan watch24 May 2027
“I did not go to Navbahor to sit and watch. I want to come back to Andijon and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Match22 May 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Bukhara leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Match24 Apr 2027
7 matches without a win for Andijon
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Andijon are no longer polite ones.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Martin Boakye 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Imeda Ashortia 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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
“I did not go to Navbahor to sit and watch. I want to come back to Andijon and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Crisis
Squad29 Mar 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 Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saleh Al-Qumayzi 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.
Match27 Mar 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Martin Boakye
“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.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Andijon, and 1 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
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Steady
Market22 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Andijon can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Martin Boakye 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Imeda Ashortia 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.
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Steady
Market25 Jan 2027
“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 Andijon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Imeda Ashortia 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.
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Steady
Market28 Dec 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 Andijon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market28 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Andijon is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Martin Boakye 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.
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Steady
Market16 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Andijon is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Martin Boakye 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Saleh Al-Qumayzi 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.