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Round Table: The spring season of RPL
It is time for another Round Table here at RussianFootballNews.com. The Russian Premier League starts this weekend and our panel will be discussing what we can expect from the last part of the season....
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The RPL Relegation Race
If two clubs finish on the same amount of points, the team with the most wins will be first. If the clubs have the same amount of wins it depends on the two matches between the clubs. This season’s...
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Fedun, Yakin, Romantsev, Bushmanov and Alenichev – A Short Story On Spartak’s...
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”- Leo Tolstoy The idea that something will eventually change with the apparent departure of Leonid Fedun from the position of...
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Round Table: Alenichev’s Spartak and Fabio Capello
Our panel consists of: Saul Pope (@SaulPope): Writer for WhenSaturdayComes, Futbolgrad and owner of SaulPope.wordpress.com Joel Amorim (@Vostok1981): Founder of TheOldNumber10, Writer for...
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Season Preview: Spartak Moscow
Intro: Last season turned out to be just another nail on Spartak Moscow’s already heavy perforated coffin. Murat Yakin, who took the team’s reins last summer, failed to fully implement his ideas in a...
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The Russian Messi and Spartak’s Missing Youth
Dmitri Alenichev on the training field. Fans of the Red-White Moscow side Spartak didn’t have much to celebrate last season, as the club finished sixth in the league, six points behind the historic...
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Spartak’s Ongoing Perestroika
“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.” – Mikhail Gorbachev The former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev paid too heavy a price for his Perestroika...
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Round Table: Taking the Temperature of the First Half of the Season
The first half of the 2015/2016 season is now over, and we have once again gathered an expert panel to discuss the most important events of the first 15 rounds of the Russian Premier League. Or panel...
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The 5 best Russians to ever grace the Champions League
With the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League completed in earnest this week, Zenit St. Petersburg have been given a fantastic chance to progress to the quarter-finals after being pitted...
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Spartak’s Historic 1995/1996 Champions League Campaign
Spartak before the match against Rosenborg in 1995. The first half of the Champions League campaign saw Zenit St. Petersburg vault to the top of Group H and qualify for the knockout phase. It included...
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Spartak’s Winter Tasks
With the transfer window being almost three weeks old, and Spartak Moscow being in United Arab Emirates on their first training camp this winter, the fans are starting to wonder what’s happening...
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Rostov – Spartak: The Red-Whites at Their Usual Place
We are now more than two-thirds into the 2015/2016 season, and from a Spartak Moscow perspective, it is starting to look like many others. The Red-Whites are currently ranked seventh in the league,...
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Emery, Laudrup & Karpin – Ten Coaches Who Failed at Spartak
Under the control of legendary Russian head coach Oleg Romantsev, Spartak Moscow won nine Russian championships as well as four Russian cups between 1992 and 2003. Furthermore, they became the first,...
View ArticleRFN Podcast: Alenichev safe at Spartak? Dinamo’s youthful policy & Jorge...
Thomas Giles is once again joined by Toke Theilade and Andrew Flint to discuss the issues at the top of the agenda in Russian football. The trio discuss whether club legend Dmitri Alenichev is the...
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Spartak, What’s Next?
As I wrote after Spartak’s defeat to Rostov, the Red-Whites are going through a difficult time. Spartak have had to restart its project every summer in recent seasons because of coach changes, which...
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Sergey Pesyakov – Spartak’s Unsung Hero
Artem Rebrov was Murat Yakin’s wingman on the pitch last season and things haven’t changed much with the arrival of a new head coach back in the summer. Dmitry Alenichev renewed his trust on the...
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Renaissance, Hope and Europa League for Spartak Moscow
On April 16, Spartak Moscow lost 5-2 in St. Petersburg against Zenit after an absolutely pathetic performance. Following the defeat, the Red-Whites were in dire trouble and found themselves in seventh...
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Serdar Tasci and the Escape to Turkey
When Serdar Tasci left Spartak Moscow in January, he did not intend to return to Russia once his loan deal with Bayern Munich was over. “Tasci doesn’t wish to return to Russia,” his agent Ahmet Bulut...
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Alenichev and the Tula Gingerbread
Since Dmitry Alenichev was sacked at Spartak Moscow in August following an embarassing Europa League defeat to AEK Larnaca from Cyprus, the Red-Whites have looked like a different team. Although they...
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Egor Titov: Enigmatic Footballer, Esoteric History
Egor Titov is a Spartak Moscow legend, spending thirteen years at the club during and after the great Oleg Romantsev’s reign. As such, his opinion cast’s a heavy shadow in the corridors of Tarasovka....
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