Recent content by Machetero

He should) been a ball boy at Shakhtar with Ferna in first team.

Anyone considering Ukrainian Airlines - mind that they are quite shitty currently. No free food or drinks apart form water. OK in terms of flight safety, but very bad service-vise.

Thans a lot! Putin is indeed what you said.) But it's quite complicated to find an ultimate answer to the propaganda question. Yes, indeed, Russian-language/ethnicity (or both) people in the East were much more gullible in terms of 'Russian world' influence, the considered (and some still)...

There were something like 70-80 Maccabi (scarfs, shirts, support) supporters in the hospitality area (somehow on my and friends' of mine season ticket places) and 150-200 Kiev supportes. Plus some 100-200 indistinguishable spectators. Yes, UEFA requests 'no scarf, replica shirts and preferable...

Thank you and you are welcome. Weaker is not a proper word here, I'd say. More desirable is closer to the general opinion here. Logic is quite simple: 1. Us. Dinamo in current shape, restored by Sergiy Rebrov one season ago, after 5 years without 1st place in Ukrainan premier league. -...

Sure, president will do everything possible. It's first time in 16 years that we are in CL play-off and very important for kievites moral-vise. Plus elder brother of the president is top manager of UEFA - hope he'll intervene. Playing without supporters makes football pointless. As for the...

Funny to read some post here. Firstly - regarding safety in Kiev and 'civil war'. It is as safe. At least much more safe than living in Brixton London. Combat zone is some 300 miles to the east. 'Civil war'- it's not. It's a war with Russian, hybrid, phoney, undeclared - you name it. I'm 33...

Nice to pay Man City again. As for airplane tickets - check http://www.flyuia.com/eng/main.html should be about 200 GBP London - Kiev- London. Not sure about Manchester flights. I booked them in September of away game with Chelsea - 250 USD (return ticket) it was. As for the stadium ban -...

They lost both legs to Shakhtar: 0-2 and 0-3. They also sold Matheus (scored most of the goals and two against Arsenal) to Metalist (Kharkov, Ukraine). Yes, they are good (nice selection of Brazilian legionaries) and shouldn't be underestimated, but they are the best draw possible at this stage.

Actually there only two more games (1/16) than in CL.

Re: counters - it depends with whom Dynamo is playing. With Braga it will be pretty the same as with Besiktas. Nice draw all the way to the final, Porto and Villareal can only be met in the final.

Braga is #6 in current Portuguese championship and they no near Porto, Benfica, Sporting - local super-clubs. They 2d place in 2009/2010 Portuguese league was a sheer luck and the fact that aforementioned leaders were undergoing generation changes in their squads (and sold some of the leaders to...

He got YC not for the challenge being harsh or something, but for breaking potential one on one DK attack. That was the only way in that situation, so he did it for the team and accepted the card without any emotion knowing that he earned it all right. Toure got YC on a similar occasion.

EL had and has: Borussia Dortmund - current #1 Bundesliga team Porto, Benfica, Sporting - current TOP3 Portuguese teams Lille - current #1 French team PSV, Twente, Ajax (joined from CL) - current TOP3 Dutch teams That's not talking about PSG, Villiareal, Sevilla, Turks, Scottish teams...

Sorry, but in CL you'll -possibly- have to fly as far as Saint Petersburg, Moscow or even Kazan (hope not, otherwise -3 in Kiev will be paradise compared to -20 in the capital of Tatarstan region of Russia). Team on this stage of EL are the same as in CL (with an exception of Barcelona, Real)...