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New Year’s resolutions – Russian style
With the passing of New Year, Alan Moore brings us his top three resolutions for Russian football in 2018.
Author: Alan Moore
A Russia-based Sports Journalist and Consultant, worked with major sports clubs including:- Spartak Moscow, Hajduk Split, Eintracht Frankfurt. Boxed Internationally, played semi-pro football and worked full-time in sports management/consultancy from 2003-13.
First published professionally on football in 1990, first Russian league match in 1991, now hosting Capital Sports on Capital FM, Moscow and the Capital Sports Stadium Shows at the RZD Arena and writing the odd article. Director of the Russian State Social University College in Moscow. And to make things more fun, he produces and hosts #ChampTalks for UNESCO, Moscow's Tolerance Centre and Capital FM.
World Cup 2018 countdown – Another foul please
With the 2018 World Cup less than six months away, Alan Moore discusses final preparations, policing and fake news.
Russian football and the habits that are hard to kick
With the latest instalment of crowd disorder in Russia, Alan Moore ponders whether authorities can truly address the issue before next summer’s World Cup.
Who fears to speak of Russia 2018
With under a year before the World Cup kicks off on home soil, Alan Moore looks at the bleak prospects for the host nation’s national team.
Football National League – The Russian Graveyard
Alan Moore reviews the winners and losers in another tumultuous season in the Football National League – The Russian Graveyard.
Numbers at play – Science predicts Confederations Cup success for Russia
With the Confederations Cup an intriguing test for Russian infrastructure, Alan Moore uses science to predict success for the host country this summer.
Media scaremongers destroyed by Russian football’s ‘Gentlefan’ ambush
After weeks of negative media, hopes for the 2018 World Cup and Russian football in general got a shot in the arm from a ‘Gentlefan’ revolution, writes Alan Moore.
Real or fake news – A very Russian report
In his latest dispatch from Russia, Alan Moore discusses the continuing corruption in football regulations, hooliganism and how preparations for World Cup 2018 are progressing.
The Payet and Bilić Fantasy Football Show
Alan Moore casts his eye over the transfer tug-of-war between Wes Ham and Dimitri Payet and comes to some cynical conclusions.
World Cup 2018 Russia – Going, going, gone?
Amid the various scandals in the world of football, Alan Moore discusses the impact on the next World Cup which will be held in Russia.