... Yuri Zhirkov processed the ball in the usual movement. Through his eyes he was looking for a continuation, opening partners. When I realized what needs to be done, the ball was no longer under my foot. He went underground - the lawn could not withstand the pressure.
Sergei Aksyonov, CSKA press officer, also could not stand it.
- Do you want to sell an idea? He suggested to the journalist.
The reporter reached into his wallet.
“No,” Aksyonov dismissed. - Why in our championship, since we play on such lawns, the hosts should not choose a cover, as in tennis. Someone let him choose hard, some - soil, someone - grass.
His anger knew no bounds. And it became a little alarming. Knowing who leads the army team, you can soon expect small changes in the regulations.
- You can’t play on such a field! Well, agree ...
You can not play not only in such a field, but also in such a stadium as "Homeland".
Temporary stands swayed dangerously under the fans. There is no mixed zone where teleoperators pushed their elbows with colleagues, and did not hold a picture. A terrible press box with dirty tables and chairs in the fan sector, albeit with a dedicated Internet line.
And what happened in that part of the city where the stadium is located! The police stood almost from the Leningrad highway, every five meters. Cars didn’t miss the arena closer than a kilometer.
“There are drunk fans of CSKA,” the traffic police explained good-naturedly to drivers. “You don’t want your car smashed?” Drive the other way.
“Drunk fans” is, apparently, an installation. After the match, the police arrested almost the entire platform and took them to the police station. The question, by what right, was followed by a laconic explanation:
- You stood on the armchairs, we filmed it on video.
True, they did not beat anyone in the department, but formally copied the names and surnames, and then released them. It turns out that going to football is an illegal act? Even though someone was standing on an armchair (by the way, such plastic seats, like in the "Homeland", are bursting with frost), but by and large this is not even an administrative violation. You can stand on anything.
So, Khimki did not cope with the organization of the game of the championship of Russia. But the question is not why the unprepared city team entered the Premier League, but who allowed the city to the tournament.
The post-match press conference was sad.
Valery Gazzaev, explaining the unsuccessful result, remembered the transition to the autumn-spring system.
“We need to switch to this system so that lawns are prepared in the summer,” he explained. - And then they will not talk about bad fields.
CSKA coach playing with fire. And if then they start talking about the game?
Vladimir Kazachenok was a little upset that they did not show the second yellow card to Elver Rakhimich.
“Rakhimich must tear off someone’s head to be removed,” he lamented.
Of the events on the field, we note the behavior of Andrei Tikhonov, who tried to establish contact with army fans.
- Me-so, me-so! - they began to chant when the footballer approached.
The midfielder raised his hands and applauded.
Fans of the army club are not worth quoting here. By the way, that may be why so many were taken to the police. After all, Tikhonov in Khimki is a saint.
Alexey Shevchenko