Pitch Invasion

The photo reads, in English, Spartak — for Спартак Москва, of course. As Jonathon Wilson’s Behind the Curtain explains, “Spartak have had a hooligan element since the seventies, when shaven-headed thugs in their red-and-white colours would rampage through city centres and daub their slogans on walls — further evidence, to those looking for [...]

According to the Moscow Times, “Sixty-three football fans aged 13 to 16 were briefly detained last weekend amid drunken clashes that left a dark-skinned man dead and two others injured.” The dead man was Sergei Nikolayev, from Siberia.
The violence came after Spartak Moscow’s win over FK Moscow, but far from the stadium, and the catalyst [...]