Their ground looks like a cow paddock
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Lokomotiv plodders, the lads will need no motivation for that one
How many times have we told ourselves that...
It is a cow paddock and part time pig racing track
Oh you just had to say it...
Plovdiv... nothing like Bulgaria in the fall fellas!
Terrible place to go out !
Why would you call a team Locomotif ?
They were clubs owned or associated with the old national railway company in the USSR.
A lot of sports clubs were connected to industries or other ways of trade (police, military etc).
Bunch of 'Divs, innit!
The less glamourous end of the Abramovic-like scams.
According to google it will still be high 80s Fahrenheit when the game is played.
CSKA = Red Army
Dynamo = Police/KGB
Lokomotiv = Railways
Etc, in all former Eastern Bloc countries.
In the communist system, the footballers for those clubs were nominally and sometimes quite literally employees of those industries.
None. All qualifiers are behind closed doors.
Yes - especially away from home on a cowfield of a pitch.
At home, you'd think it would be a walk in the park - away however in a 1 legged tie....... Well let's just say there's no room for any cock ups.
Especially when it's sandwiched between the first and second games of the season too.