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Scarf of the day #30 Obolon Kyiv (newer version)

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  This is a newer version of the Obolon scarf and comes from the 4-2 win over Kremin in 2013 that is covered elsewhere in this blog when Obolon were going through their phase of  being Obolon Brovary that came to an end this season. There's more information in the labels.

Scarf of the day #24 Obolon Kyiv

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  Well, despite having the weekend off this project and wearing a few of the ones that we have already had featured here, today we have another good one. Obolon Kyiv. This is an old school Obolon scarf that features Latin on one side and Cyrillic on the other. Also notice the controversial spelling of 'Kiev' on the one side of the scarf. this came from the end of 2002 and that was less of a bone of contention then.  My dad has the original one of these scarves, I got that one with Phil when we first met Andriy Tatarchuk. It was at a time when Obolon's first team were playing at Olympiskiy before the 'Remont' and eventual move to their own stadium. The mighty Obolon 2 were playing at the old ground in Smena at that time.  Nowadays, Obolon have their own Arena, which is often used for first league meetings and as a home for several displaced teams in the Ukrainian Premier League. I'll probably try and get to a game there next time I'm over, but last time I was...