Sasha Goryunov
slasherrrr.bsky.social
Sasha Goryunov
@slasherrrr.bsky.social
goalkeeper at large
In the end Brentford should’ve scored off a throw in the 90th minute - why did Van Den Berg drift in towards the flick? - but got hit after an error on midfield.
A fairly uneventful evening but Brentford stayed in the game. #ARSBRE
Rico Henry. Listen, fair play. Came under so much pressure in the first half.
#ARSBRE
PS Nice to be in the press box & not getting rained on. 🙏
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Half-time cakeS. Mmm. #ARSBRE
December 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Rico Henry. Listen, fair play. Came under so much pressure in the first half.
#ARSBRE
PS Nice to be in the press box & not getting rained on. 🙏
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Just gonna tuck into another pie while I wait this out. Listen, fair play to @fulhamfc.com for putting these on in the media centre after the game. Don’t think you can do any better rolling in after getting drenched most of the evening. (bows) #FULMCI
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Oh, come on! No emoji for the levels of precipitation this evening. Forgot my umbrella obvs. #FULMCI
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“The team who wins the Premier League is the team who grows.” Guardiola on GREAT form after the game, you know. In full flow. Relief? Perhaps. But also… City were very exciting & they’re deffo in the title race. #FULMCI
December 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, that was football. & Foden, lots of Foden. #FULMCI
December 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
So much to process
- Hajduk Split - the team of the partisan army and the revolution
- Vujadin Boškov beating the USSR in Tampere in 1952
- Franjo Tudjman running Partizan Belgrade in the 1950s
- the focus on sport to raise international profile -> very modern-day Croatia, innit?
The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia. Mmm… yes, please! #InternationalBreak
December 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Btw if your Serbo-Croat ain’t all that, there are subtitled versions of The Last Yugoslavian Team.
English
youtu.be/DNmVbYy8TeY?...
French
youtu.be/bhzZ8lcaXag?...
but, weirdly, they’re missing 25-30 minutes, incl. all of Prosinečki.

Best to put the original through a translator.
November 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Props to @jonawils.bsky.social for a lovely tribute to Nikita Simonyan in the intro.

Very enjoyable - and sensible - Premier League analysis with your standard references to Bela Guttman thrown in.
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Footy, innit. 🧤
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Watched The Last Yugoslavian Football Team (filmed around the Yugoslavia-Croatia Euro 2000 qualifiers) on the way to & from the Emirates on Sunday. Like stepping into a Kapadia film.

Great cast: Mihajlović, Boban, Savičević, Osim, Prosinečki, Mijatović

youtu.be/8CwDQ_crgkQ?...
Последњи југословенски фудбалски тим (2000) - цео филм
YouTube video by sajkovac
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A genuinely astonishing stat
Only the fourth ever hat-trick in this fixture, after Ted Drake (Arsenal, October 1934), Terry Dyson (Spurs, August 1961) and Alan Sunderland (Arsenal, December 1978) according to Opta.

Seems mad, but suppose it's always been a game between two teams relatively close to each other - unlike today.
November 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
When Arsenal signed Eze, my gut feeling was “ooooh… he could be THE one, you know.”

Thought Arsenal were impossible to play against today & then there was Eze when they had the ball. Such brilliant feet for all three goals. Chapeau! #ARSTOT
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
My chum Maria went to Glasgow on Tuesday. She saw things, spoke to randoms & filmed a lot of people crying and falling over. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇰
(some absolutely lovely scenes from about 7:30 onwards) youtube.com/watch?v=p3O2...
Шотландия едет на Чемпионат Мира! Впервые с 1998!
YouTube video by Non Blogue // Maria MacArrow // Мария Макарова
youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Brutal. Genuinely brutal.
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Reposted by Sasha Goryunov
Dick Advocaat zal dinsdagavond in Jamaica ontbreken als coach van het nationale elftal van Curaçao. Advocaat heeft het trainingskamp in Kingston vanwege persoonlijke omstandigheden halsoverkop moeten verlaten. Dat heeft de Curaçaose voetbalbond FFK zaterdagavond laat bekend gemaakt.
Klap voor Curaçao: Dick Advocaat moet allesbeslissende WK-kraker met Jamaica om privéredenen missen
www.telegraaf.nl
November 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
OMG
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Listen, fair play.
November 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Tell you what, Yugoslavia between the wars was a funny old place but the football governance was truly something else. It’s exhausting just reading about how mad it all was… not sure how anyone had any energy left for the actual football.
The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia. Mmm… yes, please! #InternationalBreak
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia. Mmm… yes, please! #InternationalBreak
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Reposted by Sasha Goryunov
Too many hard-luck stories in so many of their games this season (Galatasaray pen, United head injury etc). Ultimately the not-great teams leave themselves open to those margins and that's where Liverpool are.
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Games against City really do show where Liverpool are in a given season. If they are off it, they take a hammering. City do not let them off. #MCILIV
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Reposted by Sasha Goryunov
Pep Guardiola believes Liverpool are his greatest rivals and the perfect team for Manchester City to be playing in what will be his 1,000th game as a manager.

🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Above Napoli. Above Juventus.
It is an historic night for Cypriot side Pafos.

They earned their first-ever win in the Champions League, beating Villarreal in Kolossi thanks to Derrick Luckassen’s header from Ken Sema’s corner.
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM