Handball superliga, round 13: RK Partizan - Mokra Gora 27:21

This match was back on last Saturday, but over here I had/still have Christmas - have a merry one everyone whom it may concern - that’s why I’m coming with this post just now.

Don’t expect basketball posts from me in the near future. I’m done watching this bunch of talentless, useless players who have no idea about the game. Life is too short to waste it on shitty matches and mediocre players.

On the other hand there is the handball team, a group of talented, skilled and dedicated youngsters, most of them coming from our own youth academy. They get far less attention than they would deserve. Well, handball itself doesn’t get enough attention...

We had an overwhelming start. When the standing is 11:4 fir us 10 minutes before the end of the first half, you can say we started it strong… Hats off to Mokra Gora, because they did come back for the middle of the second half to 16:15, they even took the lead. We equalized in the 45th minute (17:17) then took back the lead with Butulija’s goal. From then on we kept things under control until the final buzz.

Here’s a scene from the game and a photo of young Aleksa Maksić, the MVP of the game. (photos: super.rss.org.rs)

End result of the autumn season:

1. Železničar 1949 25 points

2. Partizan 17 points

3. Crvena Zvezda 17 points

4. Obilić 16 points

5. Rudar 15 points

6. Sloga 15 points

7. Spartak Vojput 13 points

8. Metaloplastika 10 points

9. Šamot 65 9 points

10 Mokra Gora 9 points

11. Požarevac 6 points

12. Jugović 4 points

Superliga, round 22: 156th eternal derby - FK Partizan - Crvena Zvezda 1:1

There was really everything on this derby, like in a good bazaar. Mass fight with gendarmerie, penalty for Partizan (believe it or not!...), tension, yelling and swearing. There was just one thing missing.

Football.

Oh well. Nothing in this life is perfect, is it?

Let’s keep the chronological order.

Zvezda had a strong start. We were stuck around our penalty area, but they ran out of breath after 10 minutes. They had no attempt though, just put us under pressure. Meanwhile it was raining heavily, the atmosphere was so tensed that Tawamba was booked after 5 minutes for complaining. But as I said earlier, Zvezda could keep up the pace only for 10 minutes - then we could have actually attacked, but I guess I tell no secret by saying we didn’t. Instead the two teams were just kicking each other with clenched teeth and usually Partizan’s players came off badly, with Pantić or Everton falling to the ground. (The latter one had a hissy fit, as unnecessarily as possible.) Then in the 15th minute Ožegović ran upfield and shot. Ut was flat and generally a weak one, still it was good enough to show off. The answer came 2 minutes later, Kanga’s shot was too high.

Tawamba some time during the game (photo: partizan.rs)

At this point something strange started going on. Namely only Zvezda-fans were singing, cheering, waving flags and using pyrotechnics. Yet the southern tribune was silent. You get what I mean. Eternal derby, in Partizan’s home. The southern tribune usually prepare for such an event with special banners and choreography and 30 minutes before the start the stands are already on fire. Now there was nothing.

Something was definitely going on, it was obvious.

Meanwhile every link died. Desperate search for a working one, finally I found one from Germany.

Yes. A German sports channel actually broadcasted the Serbian eternal derby.

Stojković saved Kanga’s shot in the 25th minute, meanwhile a camera showed the still silent southern tribune, where there was a mass fight. So that’s why Grave Diggers were not singing… Such fights always have some deep background story and a heavy consequence.

Meanwhile the pace of the game slowed down, just Pešić made some eyebrows rise in the 29th minute with his shot, Stojković had a great save - just like in the 33rd minute.

Stojke (photo: partizan.rs)

Then nothing happened. Minutes walked by very slowly, the game turned from uneventful to boring. Then suddenly, around the 42nd minute all you could see was a group of gendarmerie pulling a few - maybe 6-8 - half-naked, bleeding men while fans were screaming and booing. Photos about the bleeding faces immediately ran through the Serbian internet (no, I won’t post here any, for me it was simply too much), and the good, old guessing game started right there.

Everyone said everything. All that I write here is - right now, on Thursday evening - non-official. All my infos are from the press and non-official sources.

Those men whom gendarmerie pulled out of the southern tribune were all Croatian citizens. All if them had a criminal record, for a few it was a pretty nice and long list. There were former kick-boxers among them. The Croatian press named them all, as the members of a gang in Split. They were joined by 20 Zvezda-fans, and this group could somehow get to the southern tribune and provoked a fight with the members of Alcatraz, who are also well-known for being not easily scared, to say the least.

Well.

It raises a long row of questions.

Who allowed these criminals to enter the country?

Where was the intelligence agency? Why didn’t they know about it? Or if they did, why didn’t they do anything?

Who let this bunch of criminals to the southern tribune?

I’ll be honest, I found the fourth question the most disturbing. Why did the intelligence agencies took no action? I can’t imagine they knew nothing about it. (If they really didn’t know anything, they must be fired right now, all of them, including the minister.)

It means that all authorities were just watching as criminals enter the country and provoke Serbian citizens. Some say that the fact gendarmerie pulled them out of the tribune was the result of an amateurish mistake in the very well-built plan. Otherwise it’s more than sure authorities would have turned a blind eye on them and let them run away.

Let it sink in.

Some people (obviously from the highest political ranges) invite a bunch of criminals to the country to provoke and attack citizens. Then they (are about to) let them flee.

If it doesn't give you cold shivers, then it was probably you giving order to import these criminals.

Let’s return to the game…

The link died again at the beginning of the second half. I could watch it again from the 50th minute, I think there was anything life-changing happening in those 5 minutes I missed out… While Partizan-fans returned back to life, from then on they were singing and cheering for the whole game. In the 52nd minute someone (not sure who it was, all I could see was that it was a Partizan-player) made such an awful, painful air-kick (when they kick the air and not the ball) that would result a two-week ban to the reserve team at better places. In the 56th Kanga shot from 18 metres and even though it was flat, it was dangerous and it was just a little bit too wide.

Then in the 60 th minute an amazing, unexpected, shocking thing had happened.

We got a penalty.

We.

At the derby.

You get what I mean.

The last time Partizan got a penalty on a derby was in 1995. 22 years ago. During these 22 years we suffered all sorts of fouls inside the opponent’s penalty area, but referees failed to give us penalty.

But now, when Ožegović was kicked to the ground by a defender, referee Milorad Mažić immediately pointed at the white dot - and he was right.

We got a penalty at the derby.

Here came another big moment. Soumah stood behind the ball.

Other than that Soumah was again invisible for those 70 minutes he spent on the pitch.

He shot. And scored.

From the penalty.

From that penalty we got.

At the derby.

(1:0)

What made it even more special was that Borjan almost saved it. He went to the right direction, even touched the ball, but couldn’t catch it.

After that not much happened really. The two teams were wrestling with clenched teeth, there was some fight in the 75th minute, Ožegović had a too high shot in the 78th, the in the 84th came the cold shower. Boakye equalized with a cheeky goal. A cross came from the right, defenders wanted to kick the ball downfield, but instead it dropped to Donald. Donald passed to Boakye, who took advantage of the goalmouth scramble and shot. The ball found its way to the box among the legs. (1:1)

As for the rest of the game, let’s just forget it.

Venue: Partizan stadium, Belgrade

Official: Milorad Mažić

FK Partizan: V. Stojković, Vulićević, kopasz Miletić, Ostojić, Antonov, Jevtović (Radin, 20.), Everton, Soumah (S. Ilić, 71.), Pantić, Ožegović (Jovanović, 90.), Tawamba

Crvena Zvezda: Borjan, Le Tallec, Krstičić, Kanga (Milijaš, 90.),  Boakye (Gobeljić, 89.), Donald, Rodić, F. Stojković, Pešić, Srnić (Jovičić, 62.), Savić

Goal scorers: Soumah (62. - pen.), Boakye (84.)

Yellow card: Tawamba (5.), Vulićević (14.), Savić (28.), Ostojić (35.), F. Stojković (51.), Everton (75.), Donald (75.)

End result of the 2017/18 autumn season:

1. Crvena Zvezda 57 points

2. Partizan 48 points

3. Spartak 40 points

4. Radički Niš 39 points

5. Čukarički 38 points

6. Voždovac 36 points

7. Napredak 34 points

8. Vojvodina 33 points

9. Mladost 30 points

10. Radnik 25 points

11. Mačva 24 points

12. Zemun 24 points

13. OFK Bačka 21 points

14. Borac 15 points

15. Javor 15 points

16. Rad 14 points

Superliga, round 21: Napredak - FK Partizan 2:1

Pictures appeared on social media sites the day before the game about the huge amount of snow on the Kruševac pitch. The leadership of Napredak asked everyone to help as much as possibly and asked for fans’ patience. For the morning of the gameday the pitch was cleaned, the referee delegation decided that it was eligible to play the game, there was no obstacle for the teams to clash.

Everyone who threw a hissy fit about pitch conditions, namely that it looked like a pigsty full of mud, all of you please go and fuck yourselves. First, a professional football player MUST endure even such conditions, because this is his job, that’s why he gets salary. If they don’t like it, they are free to leave and switch profession to be ballerinas. Second, obviously nobody wanted to postpone this game until spring, so obviously both teams’ leadership agreed to play this game, regardless of pitch conditions.

FYI, professionalism exists in this world, not just whining and making excuses.

Then the game was about to start, but it just didn’t start… A few home fans found it funny to throw snowballs to Stojković from the stands. Seeing this both teams decided to leave the pitch. Nothing happened for 5 minutes, just fans got more and more annoyed, booing and hissing. When teams returned to the pitch, something broke in Partizan-fans, they threw a firecracker onto the grass.

It came to my mind already at this point that FSS would fuck us. And the end wasn’t even near...

Then we could finally start the game (and mud-wrestling). We had a strong start, in the 6th minute the goalkeeper saved Ožegović’s sho, then in the 12th Pantić’s free kick crossed to the goalmouth, a defender kicked it downfield, the ball dropped to Radin, he shot, the goalkeeper had a great save.

The game had a halt again in the 14th minute. Partizan-fans hanged a banner on the tribune on which they let FSS and the referee committee know their opinion about them. (In short, ‘go and fuck yourselves, bastards’.) They also threw firecrackers on the pitch.

I have no idea what those on the southern tribune thought when hanging out this banner. Did they really think the leadership of FSS will sprinkle ash on their heads and resign with deep regret about their sins when seeing this banner? No, you idiots, seeing this banner FSS will fuck us so hard that those at Brazzers will clap their hands and I’m sure they would offer a certain amount of percent for the rights as well.

Meanwhile on the other side Stojković was again thrown with snowballs. So, it was a nice, peaceful, Sunday afternoon atmosphere with high-level, intellectual entertainment.

Oh, wait...

The match continued in the 18th minute, right with an attempt by the home team. Alivodić ran upfield, he was tackled, we made a counter-attack, Tawamba got the ball, he was tackled inside the penalty area. The Cameroonian fell, many complained for penalty. I’ll be honest, I didn’t see clearly what happened, so I rather say nothing.

We still had a Tawamba-moment in the 29th minute… he got the ball again, defenders fell asleep, Tawamba dribbled the goalkeeper, shot…

…and it was such a terrible shot being too wide with metres that the ball burst into tears as it flew out of the pitch to the southern tribune. In the 31st minute baldhead Miletić got the ball after a goalmouth scramble. Baldhead shot, it was too wide with 1-2 centimetres.

Then… Then came the 34th minute. Alivodić ran upfield on the right side, crossed to the middle where Vukanović arrived all alone. Defenders were just watching as Vukanović shot and scored a huge goal. (1:0)

It was really a huge goal, plus the action itself was spectacular as well.

Not much later Alivodić shot after a solo, but that was saved by Stojković.

For the left of the first half we just struggled. It looked as so that if the ball fell into the opponent’s penalty area and someone from us was hanging around there, then we were dangerous. If not, then not. Additionally our defense line was painfully tragic.

In the halftime Partizan-players went to the fans to talk. Even though it didn’t come to spotlight what they discussed, but it was almost surely something like ‘guys, be kind enough to stick up all your fucking transparents in your arses, ecause the team will (again) get fucked because some of you (again) can’t behave’. (photo: partizan.rs)

The second half started with another Tawamba-moment. 49th minute, all doors and windows are wide open, and Tawamba shot too wide…

In the 54th minute Napredak scored again. This one was even more spectacular than the previous. Boranijašević got a great pass, crossed to the middle, nobody was there, only Đerić, who simply walked into the box with the ball. (2:0)

This was again a huge goal from a fantastic action.

There was only one problem with it.

We received it.

We could score only once, in the 59th minute, even then it was just a penalty. I’m not even sure if it was just… What I could see from the slow motion replay was that the defender who tackled Tawamba actually did touch the ball before tackling the Cameroonian. Anyway, penalty is (just like goal) what the referee validates, and referee Milorad Mažić pointed at the white spot. Here came another weird situation.

Nobody wanted to shoot the penalty. Neither Soumah (who was again invisible for the whole game, literally doing nothing for 90 fucking minutes), nor Ožegović. Finally Jevtović was brave enough to stand behind the ball. He scored. (2:1)

Then nothing happened for 13 massive minutes. The first action came in the 72nd minute, Napredak attacked, just everyone was way behind Vukanović’s cross. It was actually very good, because our defenders were way behind, too...

It was a bit muddy (photo: partizan.rs)

The home team attacked immediately afterwards. Eskić’s shot was too high, our defenders were again in the woods probably… In the 82nd minute Solomon headed the ball so wide that it caused physical pain to watch.

The end game brought the most unbelievable situation. We got a free kick in the extra time (90+4.), even Stojković left his box and came to the opponent’s penalty area. The problem was that the home team made a turnover and Alivodić was already running upfield towards the empty box like a hurricane. Two desperate defenders tried to catch him, they couldn't… Stojković disappeared, Alivodić was unstoppable, just reached the penalty area, making one of the world’s biggest solos, shot…

…and the shot was too wide with just a millimetre, the ball rolled out of the pitch near the goalpost. Maybe the gods of football thought it would be a way too big shame for us. After this referee Mažić quickly gave the final whistle to the game.

Venue: Mladost stadium, Kruševac

Official: Milorad Mažić

Napredak: Nikola Petrović, Boranijašević, Nemanja Petrović, Miladinović, Simonović, Eskić, Alivodić, N. Mitrović, (Vulić, 90.), Vukanović (Ivanović, 90+5.), Sekidika (Milisavljević, 84.)

FK Partizan: Stojković, Vulićević, bald Miletić (M. Mitrović, 77.), Ostojić, non-bald Miletić, Jevtović, Radin (Solomon, 69.), Pantić, Soumah, Ožegović, Tawamba

Goal scorers: Vukanović (34.), Đerić (54.), Jevtović (59. - pen.)

Yellow card: Nemanja Petrović (74.), non-bald Miletić (84.)

Current championship standings:

1. Crvena Zvezda 56 points

2. Partizan 47 points

3. Spartak 39 points

4. Radnički Niš 36 points

5. Voždovac 35 points

6. Čukarički 35 points

7. Vojvodina 32 points

8. Napredak 31 points

9. Mladost 27 points

10. Radnik 25 points

11. Mačva 23 points

12. Zemun 21 points

13. OFK Bačka 18 points

14. Borac 15 points

15. Javor 15 points

16. Rad 14 points

Superliga, round 20: FK Partizan - Vojvodina 1:1

This was interesting. At the beginning there was no beginning. There was such a big snow on the pitch that fans gathered together and cleaned it off. (photo: partizan.rs)

Rumours say that Their Majesties Vazura and Vućelić also took a shovel and helped to clean the pitch. I hope there are photos about it. I want to laugh. The Fat Pig and the Old Commie actually doing something useful. A real fairy tale.

Let me note though, I hope players also helped to clean the pitch. On one hand they are athletes, on the other shoveling snow is an excellent way to warm up. Not mentioning the benefits of it to the team collective.

One additional thing: all other football games in Belgrade were cancelled, except for this one. Neither the pitch of Čukarički, nor of Rad was eligible for football. (The game was also cancelled in Čačak, but poor Borac, they are happy that they exist at all.)

Finally, after an hour-long delay the match started. It was actually exciting in the beginning, lots of running, sliding, actions and attempts on both sides.

It lasted for 10 minutes.

It was still snowing heavily and it brought life to the dull game. Partly because both the pitch and the ball were white, partly because after a while the pitch lines disappeared under the snow. There was just a big, white plain where players desperately ran after and fought over something invisible. Sometimes it was pure comedy.

As for the game itself, Tawamba had his private show in the 20th minute, heading Vulićević’s precise-as-possible cross too wide from the goalmouth. After that Vojvodina had chances. Stojković saved Mesarović’s shot in the 30th minute, then they missed out two attempts around the 37th. After the second one we had a counter-attack, at the end Rockov had a great save, when Tošić shot.

They found a red ball for the second half to play with, also two men with shovels cleaned the pitch along the lines, so we could see something out of the nervous players running up and down. And it seemed we did have luck. In the 48th minute Tošić took us the lead. A cross arrived from left, the ball rolled through the defenders trying to find their balance on the snowy ground, nobody saw Tošić appearing from behind. He grabbed the ball, Rockov desperately jumped out into the goalmouth, but couldn’t save, Tošić pushed it into the box. (1:0)

After this it was snowing heavily, other than that nothing happened. (photo: partizan.rs)

In the meantime I watched Getafe - Valencia on TV. The sun was shining there.

In the 64th minute non-bald Miletić was pushed to the ground inside the penalty area. The slow motion replay made it obvious that the ball wasn’t even nearby, but referee Zoran Široki whistled goal-kick instead of penalty.

Many felt revolted, and they were right. As for me, I just sigh every time this happens, I can’t get upset anymore, seeing it way too often. Just one little note, from here, at the sideline: could we maybe score from action perhaps? Because if our victory and honour depend on penalties, then it’s all fucked up.

Then in the 70th minute fans made a pyro show, it was much more spectacular than the game itself. The 73rd minute brought a snow-cleaning break, two workers entered the pitch and shoveled away the snow from the lines. (photo: partizan.rs)

Let me ask again, why not those big, well-trained athletes cleaned the snow? Does it hurt them or what? Even if they can’t be gentlemen, at least they would have done something useful instead of getting slowly deep-frozen.

And let’s be honest, the majority of them would be eligible only as a snow-cleaner.

Then… Everyone was watching the romantic snowfall when Vojvodina equalized out of the blue. 86th minute, cross arriving from the right, Stojković could only hit the ball with his gloves, but couldn't catch it. It fell right in front of the arriving Kojašvić, who thanked the gesture and scored. (1:1)

Did we fuck it up? - We did, as always.

Have we been lame ducks? - When have we NOT been lame ducks?... (Alternative answer: we are always lame ducks, just sometimes we have luck.)

What does that person deserve who used the snowfall as an excuse for our shitty performance and the result? - To get fucked by a cartful of tiny monkeys.

What does that person deserve who seeks only for excuses instead of taking a deep breath, standing in front of the public saying ‘dear everyone, we were/are shit and this is also my fault because…’ (and here they would nicely make a list about what they fucked up)? - To get fucked by a T-Rex.

Venue:  Partizan stadium, Belgrade

Number of spectators: 3000

Official: Zoran Široki

FK Partizan: Stojković, Vulićević, Mitrović, Miletić I., Ostojić, Miletić II., Everton (Radin, 33.), Tošić (Marjanović, 51.), Pantić, Ožegović, Tawamba

Vojvodina: Rockov, Saničanin, Kojašević (M. Zličić, 89.), Lakićević, Antić, Vukašović, Jovančić, Kalezić (L. Zličić, 60.), Mihajlović, Mesarović (Subotić, 66.), Veselinović

Goal scorers: Tošić (48.), Kojašević (86.)

Yellow card: Mitrović (38.), Jovančić (81.)

Current championship standings:

1. Crvena Zvezda 53 points

2. Partizan 47 points

3. Spartak 36 points

4. Voždovac 35 points

5. Vojvodina 32 points

6. Čukarički 32 points

7. Radnički Niš 30 points

8. Napredak 27 points

9. Mladost 24 points

10. Radnik 22 points

11. Zemun 21 points

12. Mačva 20 points

13. OFK Bačka 18 points

14. Borac 14 points

15. Rad 14 points

16. Javor 14 points

Superliga, round 19: Voždovac - FK Partizan 0:1

It’s hard for me now, believe me. I’ve used up all attributes. There has already been all forms of “shit”, “lame ducks” has been my mantra and let’s say it out loud, English language isn’t too rich in curse words. (Unlike Hungarian and Serbian. Hehe.)

It would be hard anyway to find any attribute to that which this wonderful (LOL) team made as performance.

They had ABSOLUTELY NO performance. The value of their play is zero. (photo: partizan.rs)

There was some running in the beginning, but they gave it up after 15 minutes, they didn’t even wait until the 20th.

As for me, I started my favourite rosary in the 22nd, namely “why am I watching this shit?”

The only goal of the game came in the 26th minute, even that was the result of a mistake in the defense. Ožegović got the ball, passed to Tošić, he sent a distant shot to the box and scored. (0:1)

Seriously. If that Voždovac-defender hadn’t had that momentary lapse of reason, the final result would have been 0:0.

The 34th minute brought a smaller upheaval, Tawamba had an attempt, flag up, free kick downfield. The slow motion replay showed that Tawamba wasn’t on offside, a defender got stuck within the offside field - on the other side of the pitch. Tawamba was clear, yet the referee whistled it off.

Two things to mention. First, Tawamba was standing at the goalmouth, all doors and windows open. We all know how very effective Tawamba is (not…) in these situations. Yes, these are the moments when he shots too wide/too high/into the goalkeeper. I suspect the assistant raised his flag from purely humanitarian reasons to free Tawamba from the possible shitstorm, taking it on himself. Second, offside is what the referee whistles off as offside. (Same goes for goals - goal us what the referee validates.)

That was it about the first half.

The second was even worse. Seriously, this second half may come up as a tool for torture. If the client is not willing to talk/testify, just make them watch this second half. They will confess even what they didn’t commit.

I’ll be honest, I fell asleep.

Saša Ilić joined the game as a substitute in the 70th minute. This was his 400th game for Partizan. This was the top moment of the half. Well, of the entire game, rather.

Soon after came the lowest point. I mean, if this shit can get any lower. 79th minute, we got a penalty. Voždovac’s goalkeeper and Tawamba clashed, the Cameroonian fell, the referee whistled. Jevtović stood behind the ball.

Did he miss it out? Sure he did. Goalkeeper Popović had a brilliant save.

This is always heroic from a goalkeeper, independent of everything.

Then I don’t know what happened, I slept back. I think the teams did the same.

Current championship standings:

1. Crvena Zvezda 52 points

2. FK Partizan 46 points

3. Spartak 36 points

4. Voždovac 32 points

5. Čukarički 32 points

6. Vojvodina 31 points

7. Radnički Niš 30 points

8. Napredak 27 points

9. Radnik 22 points

10. Mladost 21 points

11. Zemun 21 points

12. Mačva 17 points

13. OFK Bačka 17 points

14. Borac 14 points

15. Rad 14 points

16. Javor 14 points

Superliga, round 18: FK Partizan - FK Spartak 1:1

I don’t know what’s there left to be told about this game (or this team) that hasn’t been told a million times. We were shit, we were lame ducks, plus there was the obligatory Đukić-bullshit at the post-match press conference.

I’d love to smash him into the face with something big and heavy. Like e.g. a wrecking ball. I don’t give a single fuck on how much of a cool guy he is or what a great player he used to be (he has never been a good player…) back in the Stone Age. For fuck’s sake, we don’t need fucking buddy boys anymore, we need a professional coach who can make a real team out of this mass of mediocre monkeys.

In the first half I noticed that I didn’t notice Soumah. Not at all. As if he hadn’t been on the pitch. As if he would be scared of the ball that it might bite him. He barely ever touched it, and if he still did, he got rid of it as quickly as he could. And this dude is supposed to be a striker...

Is this Soumah the same player Iliev fought so hard for, to sign last year? Is this pathetic idiot that Soumah? Signed for zillion euros? Iliev, go and fuck yourself, together with this arsehole!

Otherwise it was the same like always. We pushed hard the first 20 minutes, possessing the ball

if football was played for ball possession, we’d be champions forever

unfortunately - or not - it’s still played for goals

but Spartak seemingly prepared for this and gathered around their penalty area, bit like a bunker, and it did work for them. We lost our breath. After the 25th minute Spartak attacked frequently, it’s solely Stojković’s merit that they didn't score. Savković missed two huge chances, first in the 39th minute, the next in the 44th, both saved by Stojke.

We took the lead in the beginning of the second half with Tošić’s goal. (1:0) Don’t ask me how. I have no idea. Well, miracles do happen sometimes.

Afterwards nothing happened, and that happened massively. On both sides. We were the usual lame ducks, Spartak woke up around the 65th minute. The biggest chance of the game happened in the 69th minute, we were kind enough to miss it out. Solomon ran up all alone, shot from a very sharp angle, the ball rolled away along the goal line and left the pitch. Spartak equalized in the 72nd minute, a free kick crossed in, Nikolić headed it into the box. (1:1)

Did we speed up after the equalizing goal? Not at all.

Have we been lame ducks? As always.

How did the team play? Let’s make it clear, the team’s performance can’t be called “play”. They were as if we would be leading with 5 goals, plus as if we would be on the top of the league table with at least 6 points ahead of the neighbourhood.

What is the truth? The truth is that they played exactly like a bunch of idiots who give absolutely no shit.

And after all these Đukić appeared on the post-game press conference with a 24-carat smile and said, the reason we played like shit was that the boys were still tired after Thursday’s game.

No, mofo. These boys are not tired. These boys hate it all.

(photo: partizan.rs)

Venue: Stadium Partizan, Belgrade

Number of spectators: 2000

Official: Vlado Glođović

FK Partizan: Stojković, Radin, B. Ostojić, Mirtović, Antonov, Everton, Pantić (Ilić, 55.), Tošić, Janković (Đuričković, 45.), Soumah (Solomon, 46.), Tawamba

Spartak: M. Ostojić, Shimura, Jočić (Torbica, 83.), Kerkez, Nikolić, Ivanović, Hajdin, Savkivić, Čečarić (Abaz, 73.), A. Stojković, Ćalasan

Goal scorers: Tošić (48.), Nikolić (72.)

Yellow card: A. Stojković (75.), Ivanović (90+1.), M. Ostojić (90+3.)

Current championship standings:

1. Crvena Zvezda 49 points

2. FK Partizan 43 points

3. Spartak 33 points

4. Voždovac 32 points

5. Vojvodina 31 points

6. Čukarički 31 points

7. Radnički Niš 27 points

8. Napredak 26 points

9. Radnik 22 points

10. Mladost 20 points

11. Zemun 18 points

12. Mačva 17 points

13. OFK Bačka 16 points

14. Rad 14 points

15. Javor 12 points

16. Borac 11 points

Superliga, round 17: Javor - FK Partizan 0:2

I love Ivanjica. This town enchants me every time, and when Partizan play there, sometimes I’m busier staring at the misty mountains surrounding the football pitch than actually watching the game.

I must get to Ivanjica. I must see the mountains and the houses in the valley. Here is a photo about the town and its main street (source: skyscrapercity.com), enjoy.

As for the game itself, we had great luck, because we could score from our very first attack in the 10th minute. Janković ran up from a counter-attack, shot and scored, the goalkeeper was just blinking, like a fish in the shopping bag. (0:1) Then all that happened was that there was some pace (it was slowly gone after the 20th minute…), but no attempts. Though in the 23rd minute the ball fell into the net on the Ivanjica side of the pitch, but the referee whistled it off, fouling Tawamba (there was some wrestling in the goalmouth). Goal-kick. Javor had a chance in the 27th minute, but the shot was too wide. Then Ožegović was dancing on my nerves (most probably not just on mine…) in the 31st minute. He was in the goalmouth, Tawamba crossed from left, and Ožegović, well, he simply fell on his arse, while the ball rolled away. Ouch… The pace slowed down, all those ideas we still had (BWAHHAHAHA, we, having ideas?... Joke of the year…), were gone, too. Finally it was Janković again who got fed up with it all saying “go fuck yourselves, check this”, ran up and scored our second goal. (0:2) (photo: partizan.rs)

Sometimes I don’t know what to think about Janković. Sometimes he is like depression itself on two legs, just hanging around the pitch, not even touching the ball. Then, like now, he runs, scores (one or more goals), organizes attacks, USES HIS HEAD, not just to forward the ball, but to think, too. He definitely needs a Marko Nikolić-alike coach who’s not only a coach, but also psychologist, educator and second father as well.

As for the second half, let’s just forget it.

It says all that I turned on the TV in the 63rd minute to watch the rerun of Atletico Madrid - Real Madrid on Sport 2 Channel, because I needed something that is real football, not just “contains football in tracks”.

On this game in Ivanjica we had two huge chances, both missed out (first in the 65th minute, the non-bald Miletić shot too wide from 5 metres, then in the 75th Tošić kicked the ball into the goalkeeper from 3 steps), then Stojković had to perform a great save in the 80th minute, when Mikanivić had a distant shot.

That’s all.

Current championship standings.

1. Crvena Zvezda 46 points

2. Partizan 42 points

3. Spartak 32 points

4. Voždovac 31 points

5. Vojvodina 31 points

6. Čukarički 31 points

7. Radnički Niš 24 points

8. Napredak 23 points

9. Radnik 22 points

10. Mladost 20 points

11. Zemun 18 points

12. Mačva 16 points

13. OFK Bačka 13 points

14. Javor 11 points

15. Rad 11 points

16. Borac 10 points

Superliga, round 16: Mačva - FK Partizan 1:3

After this game I had nausea and really wanted to throw up. My stomach was upset even hours later. This was the shittiest, most shameful victory ever, backed by the referee as well. We were lame ducks and we played with no brain

has there been any tactical meeting before the game? Or everyone decided to play Assassin’s Creed instead?

Mačva decided - very smartly - to play it aggressive. It brought quite a number of wrestling scenes on both sides, but at least there was pace, even though with minimal attempts on goal. (And even those were better to forget.) After the 20th minute the pace slowened, by the way, I heard Tawamba’s name at this point for the first time. The dude touched the ball for the first time after 20 minutes… Nothing happened for long minutes, I was thinking maybe it was better to do needlework or something, even that would be more exciting than this… In the 35th minute Matić got the ball at a Mačva counter-attack. He ran up with 3 Partizan-defenders behind him, spitting out their lungs, finally Everton chose the worst solution and kicked Marić to the ground.

I really don’t know what to think about Everton. He has a very big heart, but sometimes acts like a real peasant.

For Everton’s great luck he got only a yellow card. A more strict referee would have probably sent him off with a red. Nevertheless Mačva got a free kick. Lazarević stood behind the ball, shot and scored a fantastic cannon shot goal. (1:0) Honestly, it was a huge goal and Mačva totally deserved it. They had another attack, almost immediately, Matić’s shot was too wide.

Then in the 40th minute Tawamba killed all my leftover nerves. We had a turnover, Tawamba ran upfield ALL ALONE, he faced only the goalkeeper. Nobody else was around. What does an average striker do? Tackles the goalkeeper, shoots the ball above him into the box, and scores, this way or that way.

What did Tawamba do?

Tawamba started to fucking toddle. Like a baby. He toddled, didn’t shoot, just toddled, the defenders were already back, Tawamba was pushed to the right side, finally we got a corner kick. The ball was shot to the goalmouth and Tawamba fucking missed it out, the ball rolled out through the baseline at the other side, goal kick.

May the sky fall upon the stupid head of that idiot who brought this talentless sloth Cameroonian here. I’ve seriously never thought there is worse than Bojinov. There he is… To hell with this fool, to the bench, but he should be allowed to play only when the entire striking line, even the stadium’s cleaning staff are injured...

Mačva had a strong start in the 2nd half, too, actually not much would have been needed for a 2:0 standing. As for us, Ožegović had a very weak attempt in the 51th minute, then a minute later Tawamba showed up again. Huge chance, and he falls on his ass 3 steps from the goal line. Seriously. It just can’t be.

In the 54th minute we finally managed to equalize. It was Tawamba, Vulićević’s 1000 % precise cross arrived, he just had to nod a little. (1:1) It was an “unmissable”, a “zicer”, you know, that kind which even my grandmother would, etc. etc.

Then I don’t remember much. Probably nothing happened. Around the 66th minute an asshole from the Partizan-fans’ tribune threw a smoke bomb on the pitch, halting the game fir a short while.

We fucking needed that, you idiot.

Mačva had a few dangerous counter-attacks, our attempts were blocked by their defense line.

(photo: partizan.rs)

Tošić was the other nerve cell killer. Either he is totally lame or his level of motivation is lower than of a rheumatic snail. It was physically painful to watch.

Then came a weird situation. 84th minute, Tawamba again fucks up a chance. The goalkeeper saves, Average Fan concludes - not for the first time - that we are lame ducks, deep inside congratulates to Mačva’s goalkeeper for the great save, then Pantić suddenly falls. The referee whistles and gives us a penalty.

ArenaSport showed the situation from every possible angle with slow motion replay. As for me, I have a suspicion that Pantić might have even faked that trip a bit. It was very questionable to say the least. Honestly, I do think the referee made a big mistake. No wonder the entire home team yelled his head off his neck. Their fans chanted “lopovi, lopovi” (thieves, thieves) and I have to admit, I could totally understand them.

And I felt ashamed.

Saša Ilić shot the penalty, scored. (1:2) Mačva-fans were booing, hissing, cursing, and I could not question their rage. It was a disgusting penalty which we didn’t deserve. The Captain’s presence just made it sadder. In the 89th minute little Jovanović scored our 3rd goal (1:3), Mačva-fans lost their temper and they kept on chanting “lopovi, lopovi” even after the final whistle.

Shameful victory we can’t and mustn’t be proud of.

How weird. In the previous season everyone (me included) was spitting on Zvezda for the very same reason, namely referees gave them penalty even for the most painful fake trips. They practically had no games without any questionable referee’s decision. It seems that - using a popular Hungarian expression’s English translation - we switched to the other side of the dick and the same seems to happen to us, we were the ones who spat, now we are the ones who are spitted.

I found this on Twitter. Feel free to use it

Current championship standings:

1. Crvena Zvezda 43 points

2. Partizan 39 points

3. Vojvodina 30 points

4. Spartak 29 points

5. Voždovac 28 points

6. Čukarički 28 points

7. Napredak 23 points

8. Radnički Niš 23 points

9. Radnik 21 points

10. Mladost 17 points

11. Mačva 16 points

12. Zemun 15 points

13. OFK Bačka 13 points

14. Javor 11 points

15. Rad 11 points

16. Borac 10 points