Greasing the Wheels of Capitalism
No live football this weekend, as the 1st and 2nd division comes to an end in a week with games on Monday and Saturday. Then it is all over until the new improved (maybe) Ukrainian Premier League starts again in mid-july. I must say I am pretty pissed off at the moment. Monday is a holiday here, but muggings has to work and therefore i will miss the crucial Derby between CSKA and Obolon and a so called friendly between Dynamo and Arsenal. What's the point in public holidays if they just go ignored, or the other scenario being making up for them on a Saturday (usually an even worse prospect). I wouldn't mind but the holidays in this job are the crappiest I have had in a long time anyway and the conditions aren't exactly great. Rant over.
I'm also workking nest Saturday, but should be able to get to the Obolon game on time and all being well will get to the rather pointless game between Obolon 2 and Dynamo 3 on Thursday.
In Ukraine many of the big clubs, and some of the smaller ones have a 2 team and in the case of Dynamo a 3 team, that compete in the lower divisions without prospect of promotion. In this case Dynamo 3 and Obolon 2 play in division 2a. The game is being played earler than the standard Friday, probably because it is so meaningless. These teams, for premier league teams at least are not a reserve team, as reserve teams play in tandem with the first team's fixtures, usually a day earlier. In general the 2 teams games are more interesting as they are playing against real competition, whereas reserve or dubleri games are usually fairly dull.
Ukrainian Television continued with its usual crazy scheduling of football programmes with Citi Channel broadcasting a documentary on CSKA during the Russia v Greece game yesterday, fortunately I got to see a good portion of it during half time. The programme it was part of is always on at that time, so obviously if you have planned something then nothing can get in its way. Just ask Paul Mc.Cartney who had to perform during a gale force storm yesterday. On the Euro front I was impressed (obviously) by Holland's 4-1 victory over France, but I fopunf Spain and Russias' wins over Sweden and Greece a bit dull.
Bring on Obolon 2!
I'm also workking nest Saturday, but should be able to get to the Obolon game on time and all being well will get to the rather pointless game between Obolon 2 and Dynamo 3 on Thursday.
In Ukraine many of the big clubs, and some of the smaller ones have a 2 team and in the case of Dynamo a 3 team, that compete in the lower divisions without prospect of promotion. In this case Dynamo 3 and Obolon 2 play in division 2a. The game is being played earler than the standard Friday, probably because it is so meaningless. These teams, for premier league teams at least are not a reserve team, as reserve teams play in tandem with the first team's fixtures, usually a day earlier. In general the 2 teams games are more interesting as they are playing against real competition, whereas reserve or dubleri games are usually fairly dull.
Ukrainian Television continued with its usual crazy scheduling of football programmes with Citi Channel broadcasting a documentary on CSKA during the Russia v Greece game yesterday, fortunately I got to see a good portion of it during half time. The programme it was part of is always on at that time, so obviously if you have planned something then nothing can get in its way. Just ask Paul Mc.Cartney who had to perform during a gale force storm yesterday. On the Euro front I was impressed (obviously) by Holland's 4-1 victory over France, but I fopunf Spain and Russias' wins over Sweden and Greece a bit dull.
Bring on Obolon 2!
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