Photo of the day - potato field

This weekend Partizan will play against Napredak at an away game. Today is Tuesday, and today the pitch in Napredak's stadium looks like this:

(photos: mozzartsport.com)

Since the start of the season

I'm trying hard to express myself in a decent way, I'm seriously trying hard...

we have been facing different challenges and even though we work hard, the solution is still out of sight.

Was it okay? It's really my best, I couldn't have been any more diplomatic.

So I suggest that instead of football the entire team (including the coaching staff as well as the management, together with that fathead Vazura and drug junkie Iliev) should plough the entire pitch with their bare hands and plant potatoes there. This activity would surely bring some benefits for humankind (unlike the way they play).

Don't ever think that I feel good while mocking the team. I'd very very much like to write about victories, exciting games, talented players, winner and committed attitude. But I can't. I can't write about something that doesn't exist... I'm angry, bitter and completely fed up with the shameless cynicism of the management as well as with this bunch of posers, of whom none deserves the jersey of Partizan and who spit the club and the fans in the face every single day. And I'm very much afraid it's still not the lowest point.

Reconstruction of the stadium field has started

A machine started to shell the field, slowly but surely.
Photos: mozzartsport.com

News in bulk

Partizan’s stadium will get renovated. It is highly acute not just for the upcoming Europa League matches, but also because the stadium will host three friendly football matches (against France, Albania and Denmark). Aleksandar Stepanović has been in charge for the establishment for 20 years now, juznifront.com cites his words.
- The guests' locker room had to be fully renovated. A new, modern place has been equipped for the journalists as well, one that fits for strict European standards. The current, 1400 lux reflectors got 100 lux extra power. Benches near the field are also renovated. The grass will also be refreshed. It happened last time in 2004, it has been in use for 10 years now, yet it should be renewed in every 4th year. It's also high time to renovate the watering equipments.

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There are rumours about investment companies appearing around Partizan. It means, the football team might soon be privatized. There are no facts yet, nor official statements (or denials). An unnamed informator hinted the news that an investment company from Austria has been seriously interested in Partizan as much that they even negotiate with the Serbian government about the possible purchasing of the team. Austrians allegedly want to build a brand new stadium for Partizan

Hey, hey, hey!... What's wrong with the current one?... What's wrong with the dearest, beloved JNA Stadion that lived through so much?...

and they would equip it with the newest, modern infrastructure and everything else. The offer is between $80 and 100 million. The unnamed informator said, $100 million is more realistic, because the Austrian company seriously wants to build a new stadium. They think, with no new infrastructure there will be no development either.
Partizan's president Dragan Đurić added, it would have been high time to privatize the team, because without investing companies only the team's debts would rise.

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Darko Brašanac got seriously injured at the Italy-Serbia U21 European Championship qualifying. The defender had to come off in the 19th minute and was taken immediately to a hospital in Pescara with broken ribs and injured lung. Currently he is still in Italy, he could not get on the plane to come back to Serbia with the team. Even the most cautious guessings say he needs at least a month of pause.

Italian emergency medicals picked Brašanac's pieces up and rushed him to hospital

(photo: blic.rs)

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The water polo team qualified themselves to Adriatic League. In the League there are 16 teams - 4 from Serbia, 8 from Croatia, 3 from Montenegro and 1 from Slovenia - divided to two groups. The first four from the groups will qualify themselves to the final.

Group A:

Primorje (CRO)

Mladost (CRO)

Budva (MNE)

POŠK (CRO)

Jadran S (CRO)

Branik (SLO)

Radnički (SRB)

Partizan (SRB)

Group B:

Jug (CRO)

Jadran HN (MNE)

Mornar (CRO)

Primorac (MNE)

Medveščak (CRO)

Opatija (CRO)

Crvena Zvezda (SRB)

Vojvodina (SRB)

Matches start on 4th October, the final will be in the beginning of next April.

The water polo team qualified themselves to Champions League as well. Partizan is in Group B together with Galatasaray (TUR), Jug (CRO) and Spandau (GER). The other two participants will be decided after the qualifyings. In Group A there are Barceloneta (ESP), Olimpiakos (GRE), Eger (HUN) and Brescia (ITA).

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Everyone's favourite Belgrade punk band, Grupa JNA released a new song today. The song's titled "Dete Partizana".
Pogo on!

UEFA complains about graffitties on the walls of Partizan Stadion (post is being updated!)

Scandal is about to raise in ul. Humska.
On Sunday, from 20:45 Serbia plays a friendly football game against France. The location of the match will be Partizan's stadium. Yesterday Italian UEFA-delegates visited the stadium to survey the location. They noticed the graffitties on the stadium's walls painted by fans during the years. E.g. this one, to the memory of the 1996 European Champion Clubs' Cup final played in Heysel Stadium:

(photo: juznifront.com)

Nobody said any facts or reasons on what and why UEFA-delegates didn't like about the graffitties. Yet the Serbian Football Association (FSS) was commanded by them to remove (practically to re-paint) all these graffitties. Period.
So far neither Partizan, nor FSS made any official statement about it. But Grave Diggers made it clear, they won't let it happen, and they will defend the graffitties with their own bodies making a "living cordon" around the stadium.

Dear UEFA-delegates and all you cowards ready to lick any ass any time,
Tell me ONE logical reason what's wrong with these graffitties. Cite ONE regulation that forbids them. Just ONE.
Until then keep your goddamn mouth shut and focus rather on the offenses and irregulations of the Neftchi-Partizan match.

As soon as there is any news, this post will be updated immediately.

Update:
Upon the news of juznifront.com FSS and Partizan's management decided not to re-paint the stadium's graffitties. Everything remains as it used to be. A small group of Grave Diggers appeared at the stadium, but finally they didn't need to intervene.

ALLELUJAH.
UEFA could still throw at least an explanation to us. Or FSS. Or anyone whom it may concern.