Derby day in Moscow

"His son was born!"

Dominate losses of fan armies were minimal. The only clash with a claim to a battle span (about 60 to 60) occurred at the Ryazansky Prospekt metro station, but was quickly localized by law enforcement officers and ambulance crews. Only a dozen fighters were detained. The "green" subway branch also escaped the devastating consequences. Although a couple of hours before the start of the game, civilians who were not dressed in Burberry, Lacoste, or Stone Island comprised a clear minority among its passengers, timidly clutching at the ends of the cars and covering their ears for children.

With the teams leaving the stadium tunnel, the army “west” and Spartak “east” unleashed a fierce banner war, not devoid of gambling amusement and witty staged finds. And all this was a pretty harmless addition to the amazing game action. The line of permissible was threatened only once, when seconds after the starting whistle of the Frenchman Laurent Duhamel from a red-blue sector, a rocket planned on the field. She lost her spirit just at the point where Doudu had raised his hands to the sky moments before ...

The climax of the banner performance came perhaps minutes after the second goal of CSKA, when the army stand asked the opponents a mocking question through the poster: “Do you still believe in fairy tales?” The Spartacists preferred to transfer the argument to a different topic, issuing a statement: “Gazzaev was right ! ”Mysterious for the uninitiated, it hit the enemy’s pride very much, because it recalled the characteristics that the army steering wheel shouted from the smokescreen arranged by those in Slovak Ruzomberok to their fans in their hearts.

However, the most touching tribune episode that overshadowed the skirmish of the two camps was the collective congratulation of CSKA fans to their brother. As soon as he started joyfully bouncing with his mobile phone pressed to his ear, the sector roared proudly in a thousand sips: “U-no-ro-dildo-son!” Their regiment arrived.

“He’s a clown anyway”

Shortly after the final whistle, surrounded by a dozen fans, SE journalist Igor Rabiner hit. The hunters for the autograph of the author of the book “How they killed Spartak” did not stop there and touched upon the everlasting Spartak question: “And when will we beat these *** horses?” Their intelligent interlocutor, out of his misfortune, got into a discussion, for which I was almost late for a press conference. And that turned out to be very entertaining - thanks to the enchanting solo of Valery Gazzayev: “The judge is a natural clown! - the trainer of the army was getting excited. “Yes, our judges are angels compared to this Frenchman.” He came to amuse Russia! For some reason, we see Colina in each foreign judge. The first ball we scored from the “offside”. And at the end of the first half, Strantzl had to be removed. The judge had already reached for the card, but for some reason changed his mind about showing it. Perhaps, from a political point of view, he did the right thing. But he’s a clown anyway! ”
The journalists wanted to develop the issues raised by the “political” topic, but failed, because within a minute the interlocutor left them. Vladimir Fedotov did not wait for questions. Even before Gazzaev’s fiery speech, he left a boring joke on his phone on correspondent voice recorders (he didn’t ring at last!) And a nostalgically painted assessment of the game: “The match turned out great. Champions League Level. Both we and CSKA will start in this tournament next week. Today both clubs have proved that they are ready for the Euro Tournament. The game reminded me of the good old days when we were young, when we had the same exciting football and a full stadium. Is that the fans then did not support us so colorful ... "

“Would Oleg Ivanovich be here ...”

On the street by the CSKA bus, Igor Rabiner continued to hone a pen on copies of the book that the fans held out to him. Nearby, Eugene Giner had a long and very emotional conversation with Sergey Zuev. Mostly the president of CSKA spoke, and the new head of the judiciary periodically nodded and continued to listen attentively. When Zuev was released, Rabiner approached Giner. As it turned out, to hand over his book. And here it was not without asking for an autograph and a slightly embarrassed fulfillment of the request. The rest of the pen ministers were less fortunate. They counted on an interview, and ran into a stormy moralizing: “You stopped writing about really important things. About the development of football, about youth schools. They ask me the same questions! Have you gained a point or lost two? In addition to CSKA, Spartak and Lokomotiv, will anyone be able to join the fight for medals? Everyone wrote that Giner raised the price of tickets for Spartak fans. Yes, I did not raise! We made a discount for our fans! At the same time, not ten percent of the seats were allocated to Spartak fans, as is the norm, but thirty. If Shavlo wanted, he could also make a discount for his own. ”
Ten minutes later, Giner was surrounded by ordinary visitors to the stadium.

“I came a thousand kilometers, and the match was a contract,” a man in his forties in a red and white scarf resolutely approached the army leader.

- Of course, contractual! - Giner was found. - Fedun and I agreed on everything. And they went to the judge, asked him to count the goal from offside and didn’t delete Shtranzl.

“You laugh it off ...” the fan muttered, clearly surprised that he had not been ignored. - Better say: why Romantsev did not sell you Spartak when you wanted to buy it, before CSKA? Here Igor wrote about this! - a nod followed in the direction of Rabiner, again embarrassed.

- I have not read the book yet, - Giner was embarrassed, as it seemed, no less. -Let me leave this question unanswered. Moreover, I do not like to talk about people in their absence. If Oleg Ivanovich had been here, then maybe he would have answered your question.

- And I respect you very much! May my friends and I take a picture with you?

The day, which began a fight between fans, ended with a sweet scene: a photo shoot of Spartak fans with the president of the club, who were not able to beat the Red-and-White again.

Evgeny STATSENKO