Sign outside the stadium advertising for Saturday's game. It says Sheeneek in the left corner, Rubeen in the bottom right and Oct. 18, 2:30 pm in between
Graffiti outside the stadium. This says Sheeneek
The field with the opposite side of the small stadium behind it.
The crazy group of 30 or so Kazan Rubeen fans who chanted all game long and set off flares when their team scored. Their cheering was the only noise in the stadium at the beginning of the game, before more Yaro fans showed up.
Shot of the action. Yaroslavl is in blue, Kazan in Red.
Toilet paper, or rolls of receipt paper tossed at the unfazed riot police in front of the Yaroslavl fanatics.
They even got some paper on the field that for some reason was never cleaned up. Not even at halftime. Nobody was punished either for throwing the rolls at the police or on the field.
L to R: Liz, Me, Nik, Jaime, Megan.
The Yaroslavl Sheeneek fans. Note the man in a ski mask in the lower left. For some reason that was perfectly normal to everybody else
Better look at the toilet paper thrown at the riot police by the Yaro fans.
The ringleader of the Yaroslavl football hooligans. He has his megaphone to order around the crowd.
The other fan in a skimask pounding on a drum
Towards the end of the 2-0 loss there had been no occasion for the fans to set off their smoke flares. So... they did it anyway.
More smoke. Not sure why they picked orange and green considering the Yaro colors are blue and white.
Still upbeat, drunk and celebratory despite the loss
Another shot of the crowd
The waiters at the hotel restaurant told us when we got back that Sheeneek is notoriously bad and has never won a championship. Clearly neither the the team's pitiful history nor Saturday's loss dampened the spirits of the die-hards.
Those ridiculously large flags were held and woven by fans at the stadium
