CSKA Moscow v City - Pre match discussion

[squirtyflower]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

[quote="Колобок
the bus trip may take up to 10 hours, but costs only 16-20 quid. maybe if there's enough interest we could hire a bus for ourselves, i have to explore how costly it may be.

Sounds like a plan. hHowever 10 hours on a bus with the Squirtyflower clan and De Niro..... not sure my liver will survive!!!!![/quote]
The last time I went on a coach with you, you had my 11 year old daughter watching Pulp Fiction!
She asked could she watch it again on Tuesday

 

[Bill]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

I've got an awful feeling I'll be watching this game on telly, be it Moscow or Manchester.

 

[squirtyflower]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

I've got an awful feeling I'll be watching this game on telly, be it Moscow or Manchester.

Don't say things like that Bill, this trip has already cost a fortune, City had better be on the end of it

 

[Bill]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

I've got an awful feeling I'll be watching this game on telly, be it Moscow or Manchester.

Don't say things like that Bill, this trip has already cost a fortune, City had better be on the end of it

I've paid for jess's flights and she can no longer go, stinger.

 

[squirtyflower]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

I've got an awful feeling I'll be watching this game on telly, be it Moscow or Manchester.

Don't say things like that Bill, this trip has already cost a fortune, City had better be on the end of it

I've paid for jess's flights and she can no longer go, stinger.

Ouch

 

[Simon Le Tom]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

Could turn into a VERY expensive trip if it does end up in St Peterburg. Return flights are £131 cheapest, and that's flying back to Moscow at 6am on the Thursday.

#prayforkhimki

 

[Walkbustaxi]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

UEFA Champions League match PFC CSKA – Viktoria (Plzen) will be played in Saint Petersburg
09/26/2013

Due to the poor quality of the pitch at Arena Khimki, the UEFA Champions League matchday 2 game PFC CSKA vs. Viktoria (Plzen) will be played at the Petrovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg (Petrovsky Island, 2-G).

The date and time of the match remain unchanged –October 2, kick-off at 20:00.

pfc-cska.com will shortly inform about the usage of tickets bought previously for Arena Khimki.

They've given Plzen a weeks notice that their games being moved hundreds of miles away so anythings possible for us. Total shamblefuck.

 

[Колобок]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

CSKA executive Roman Babaev told that they reached an agreement with UEFA. though all the CL games are meant to be played at the same venue, CSKA received permission to move the single Plzen game. they hope that after the international break the pitch in Khimki will become playable. no guarantees so far though.

 

[greenie]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

CSKA executive Roman Babaev told that they reached an agreement with UEFA. though all the CL games are meant to be played at the same venue, CSKA received permission to move the single Plzen game. they hope that after the international break the pitch in Khimki will become playable. no guarantees so far though.

Fingers crossed. Sending my visa application off in a minute

 

[Bozzie]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

I can't understand why UEFA and particularly City aren't all over this. The whole trip has been a nightmare to organise and now, with less than 4 weeks to go, no one knows where the game will be played. It's not City's fault but they, more than UEFA, surely have a responsibility to the fans that have made the effort in time and money to try and sort this out. It may be that they are trying to do that, so the least they could do is let us know that and what, if anything, they know about the situation. I can't believe that it is within the rules for a club to be able to select an alternative venue for a match that is hundreds of miles away from their home ground and then not have to give any notice of the change until the last minute.

 

[John Wayne]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

UEFA may have stepped in to assist CSKA in moving their home match against Plzen but I imagine that they would take a very dim view if it were to happen for the two remaining group games. The decision to move it to St. Petersburg feels as though UEFA view it as a one-off, otherwise they would have moved the three matches to Krasnodar, surely? CSKA are therefore under real pressure to ensure that Arena Khimki is fit for purpose by the time City visit. With three weeks and five days to go until the game takes place, I see no reason why it cannot be sorted in that time. Who has ever heard of a month-long postponement due to waterlogging? The amount of activity taking place at the ground in the meantime could be crucial so it is to be hoped that no further matches are played there in the interim.

 

[Tonster]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

UEFA may have stepped in to assist CSKA in moving their home match against Plzen but I imagine that they would take a very dim view if it were to happen for the two remaining group games. The decision to move it to St. Petersburg feels as though UEFA view it as a one-off, otherwise they would have moved the three matches to Krasnodar, surely? CSKA are therefore under real pressure to ensure that Arena Khimki is fit for purpose by the time City visit. With three weeks and five days to go until the game takes place, I see no reason why it cannot be sorted in that time. Who has ever heard of a month-long postponement due to waterlogging? The amount of activity taking place at the ground in the meantime could be crucial so it is to be hoped that no further matches are played there in the interim.

Judging by arena khimki's own website there are only two matches scheduled there now before ours (this Sunday and weekend before our game) as Dynamo won't move their games, so fingers crossed for our game as it should have time to recover.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.arena-khimki.ru/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.arena-khimki.ru/</a>

 

[John Wayne]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

Common sense would say that a decision will have been made as to where our game will be played by the time Dynamo play that game on Saturday 19th October. So the real work begins this Monday for nearly three weeks. If only we could send them Eric Morecambe and Stan Gibson....

 

[petrusha]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

The Russian Football Union has today allowed Dinamo's home game against Krylia on Sunday to be played at Rodina Stadium, a smaller stadium in Khimki which is home to the local club FC Khimki, currently a lower division outfit. The story is on the site of the Russian Premier League , but is in Russian and I'm afraid I can't be arsed translating it at nearly eleven on a Friday evening my time. It's here, though, in case anyone else wants to run it through Google translate or another kind soul will produce an English version: http://rus.rfpl.org/index.php/news/index/dinamo_i_krylja_sovetov_sygrajut_na_stadione_rodin/11975.

To me, the RFU invoking special rules ordering an unwilling club to move a match at 48 hours' notice shows that the Russian football authorities don't want the embarrassment of their capital being unable to find a suitable venue for a second CL game resulting in the fixture having to be played hundreds of miles away (the distance between Moscow and St P is roughly the same as between London and Glasgow). My guess is that Dinamo will go somewhere else to play any other home games between now and 23 October: it seems to me that all the stops are being pulled to have Arena Khimki ready for City to play there on that date. My bet is that it will happen.

 

[squirtyflower]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

The Russian Football Union has today allowed Dinamo's home game against Krylia on Sunday to be played at Rodina Stadium, a smaller stadium in Khimki which is home to the local club FC Khimki, currently a lower division outfit. The story is on the site of the Russian Premier League , but is in Russian and I'm afraid I can't be arsed translating it at nearly eleven on a Friday evening my time. It's here, though, in case anyone else wants to run it through Google translate or another kind soul will produce an English version: http://rus.rfpl.org/index.php/news/index/dinamo_i_krylja_sovetov_sygrajut_na_stadione_rodin/11975.

To me, the RFU invoking special rules ordering an unwilling club to move a match at 48 hours' notice shows that the Russian football authorities don't want the embarrassment of their capital being unable to find a suitable venue for a second CL game resulting in the fixture having to be played hundreds of miles away (the distance between Moscow and St P is roughly the same as between London and Glasgow). My guess is that Dinamo will go somewhere else to play any other home games between now and 23 October: it seems to me that all the stops are being pulled to have Arena Khimki ready for City to play there on that date. My bet is that it will happen.

I really hope so, i don't want to have to go all that way to watch the game in a Moscow bar!

you going to the game?

 

[petrusha]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

Actually it's such a short news item that I will translate it:

On 27 September, a session was held of the Bureau of the Executive committee of the Russian Football Union at which the decision was taken, based on articles 29 and 31 of the RFU's Charter, to allow as an exception the football club Dinamo to stage its 11th round match in the SOGAZ Russian Championship against Krylia Sovetov of Samara at Rodina Stadium, Khimki.

The match will take place on 29 September at 1.30 pm.

 

[petrusha]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

The Russian Football Union has today allowed Dinamo's home game against Krylia on Sunday to be played at Rodina Stadium, a smaller stadium in Khimki which is home to the local club FC Khimki, currently a lower division outfit. The story is on the site of the Russian Premier League , but is in Russian and I'm afraid I can't be arsed translating it at nearly eleven on a Friday evening my time. It's here, though, in case anyone else wants to run it through Google translate or another kind soul will produce an English version: http://rus.rfpl.org/index.php/news/index/dinamo_i_krylja_sovetov_sygrajut_na_stadione_rodin/11975.

To me, the RFU invoking special rules ordering an unwilling club to move a match at 48 hours' notice shows that the Russian football authorities don't want the embarrassment of their capital being unable to find a suitable venue for a second CL game resulting in the fixture having to be played hundreds of miles away (the distance between Moscow and St P is roughly the same as between London and Glasgow). My guess is that Dinamo will go somewhere else to play any other home games between now and 23 October: it seems to me that all the stops are being pulled to have Arena Khimki ready for City to play there on that date. My bet is that it will happen.

I really hope so, i don't want to have to go all that way to watch the game in a Moscow bar!

you going to the game?

I've been promised a ticket, so if my mate comes through then yes. :)

By the way, I changed the post a bit from the one you were quoted. I received a message saying they'd been told to move Sunday's game but when I actually read the story on the RFPL , it doesn't quite say that so I did a quick edit. Anyway, unless the weather is really bad between now and then, I think the chances are we'll be playing at Khimki. It's a new ground but on the small side and not very convenient in terms of accessibility so doesn't thrill me as a venue, but is better than them shifting it to a completely different city, I guess.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

I was really upset when I found that, due to personal circumstances, even though I have a ticket, I wouldn't be able to make this match at the one place I really, really wanted to go to, Moscow, but the more I read on here the more I realise that actually I am probably better off!!

This must be a nightmare for those who have already made arrangements and those who are now feeling left in limbo. I bet the club are tearing their respective hair out trying to find out what to do themselves. It must be more than a nightmare for them. Not only have they got the players and staff to think about but they have also got the fans who are making the journey as well.

Fingers and toes crossed for you all to have this nightmare sorted for you soon.

 

[petrusha]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

It's a freak circumstance because three of Moscow's top-flight clubs are in the process of having new grounds built - Spartak, CSKA themselves and Dinamo all have stadiums under construction now - while they just closed Luzhniki, the national stadium, for renovation in time to open for the Confederations Cup in 2017. So there's only one top-flight stadium open in the city right now, plus a couple of smaller sub-20K venues that would ordinarily used by clubs outside the RFPL. That means clubs sharing, and with record-breaking rainfall in recent weeks, the surfaces simply can't cope. I'm sure City, UEFA, CSKA themselves and fans of all clubs in this CL group are incredibly frustrated, and I do sympathise, but unless the weather continues to be really poor in the next 3 weeks, I suspect we should be OK, unlike Pilzen next week.

Not much consolation to our fans who've shelled out a lot of money for tickets if it does have to be moved, I know.

 

[cptaidan88]

Re: CSKA Moscow v City (Wednesday 23 October)

It's a freak circumstance because three of Moscow's top-flight clubs are in the process of having new grounds built - Spartak, CSKA themselves and Dinamo all have stadiums under construction now - while they just closed Luzhniki, the national stadium, for renovation in time to open for the Confederations Cup in 2017. So there's only one top-flight stadium open in the city right now, plus a couple of smaller sub-20K venues that would ordinarily used by clubs outside the RFPL. That means clubs sharing, and with record-breaking rainfall in recent weeks, the surfaces simply can't cope. I'm sure City, UEFA, CSKA themselves and fans of all clubs in this CL group are incredibly frustrated, and I do sympathise, but unless the weather continues to be really poor in the next 3 weeks, I suspect we should be OK, unlike Pilzen next week.

Not much consolation to our fans who've shelled out a lot of money for tickets if it does have to be moved, I know.

Is there a reason why the Lokomotiv stadium is not being considered as an alternate?