http://russia.theoffside.com/team-news/zenit-suffers-a-painful-2-1-loss-to-real-madrid.html News from the Russian Football League Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:54:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://russia.theoffside.com/team-news/zenit-suffers-a-painful-2-1-loss-to-real-madrid.html#comment-4467 j Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:17:48 +0000 http://russia.theoffside.com/team-news/zenit-suffers-a-painful-2-1-loss-to-real-madrid.html#comment-4467 Anthropology - I feel like I have to deny posting your comments because I not only feel precisely the same but one of the things I most appreciate of Football in Russia. Simply, thank you. Anthropology – I feel like I have to deny posting your comments because I not only feel precisely the same but one of the things I most appreciate of Football in Russia. Simply, thank you.

]]> http://russia.theoffside.com/team-news/zenit-suffers-a-painful-2-1-loss-to-real-madrid.html#comment-4464 Anthropology Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:49:42 +0000 http://russia.theoffside.com/team-news/zenit-suffers-a-painful-2-1-loss-to-real-madrid.html#comment-4464 this was a really good game. perhaps the Lenin-era Petrovsky, with it's mine-field of a pitch, typical depressing Saint Petersburg weather, and animal-like crowd, actually did the Champions League justice! It felt like a man's game, not the glitzy, Milan fashion show we're used to being broadcast. I didn't see one Heineken billboard or commercial. It felt more like a Russian derby. Even Pepe's antics didn't ruin it. Good stuff. this was a really good game. perhaps the Lenin-era Petrovsky, with it’s mine-field of a pitch, typical depressing Saint Petersburg weather, and animal-like crowd, actually did the Champions League justice! It felt like a man’s game, not the glitzy, Milan fashion show we’re used to being broadcast. I didn’t see one Heineken billboard or commercial. It felt more like a Russian derby. Even Pepe’s antics didn’t ruin it. Good stuff.

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