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Reva forever

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Reva forever, it certainly feels like he has been playing for that long with stints between the posts at CSKA, Dynamo and Arsenal. Vitaliy Reva in goals just before the end of the game

Metalurh Z fans at Kolos

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'Burratino' Shatskhi gets his 100th goal

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Arsenal players just after Shatskhi's goal

Arsenal Kyiv V Metalurh Zapporizhya (4/4/10)

Some things stay the same and some things change a lot. Firstly, the time and place of the Arsenal V MZ fixture changed so many times it remained a mystery up until almost the last minute. This has always been a problem in Ukraine where a fixture once even appeared at the wrong time in the morning's papers and the officials at the club weren't sure when the game would start. On that occassion we ended up missing all 3 goals in a CSKA win as we turned up at half time. Anyway, on this occassion we found that the game was at Stadion Kolos in Boryspyl at 3 o'clock and I met up with Ewig which was good, as I think I was forcing him to miss some important family stuff to come to the game, which was typical Ukrainian hospitality, as was the fact he turned up half an hour late, but I shouldn't grumble about such trivial stuff. Some things at Arsenal and most of them for the worse. Firstly, having a game on Easter Sunday was a stupid idea and moving Arsenal's home games to B...