Daily Archives: March 28, 2011

Torpedo Moscow 1 Rotor Volgograd 0

Torpedo Moscow 1 Rotor Volgograd 0 (23/05/2004) With the problems I’d experienced at the previous two games I decided to make my way to Torpedo Moscow’s home ground a day early to buy a ticket in advance. With Russian football … Continue reading

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Lokomotiv 0 Zenit St Petersburg 1

Lokomotiv 0 Zenit St Petersburg 1 (19/05/2004) By the time I came to leave St Petersburg, the rain had actually stopped and it even threatened to pretend to be spring on occasions. I was booked on the 4pm Aurora Express … Continue reading

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Zenit St Petersburg 1 Krylia Sovetov 2

Zenit St Petersburg 1 Krylia Sovetov 2 (16/05/2004) It was kind of miserable when I arrived at St Petersburg. The warmth of the weather was reflected by the warmth of the welcome at immigration, were a middle aged woman who … Continue reading

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Frankfurt, Japan 1 Greece 0 (CC 2005), South Korea 2 Togo 1 & Portugal 2 Iran 0 (WC 2006)

Anyone who went to the world cup will know just how much hotel prices ramped up. The one consolation of not being able to afford to stay in the centre of Frankfurt was the chance to avoid the usually affordable, … Continue reading

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