MOSCOW, April 2, Alexander Sergeyev. Former president of the Moscow football club Spartak Andrey Chervichenko said that the match between Lokomotiv and Spartak should not have been postponed due to snowfall. In the 23rd round of the Russian Football Championship, Lokomotiv beat Spartak 1-0 on Saturday. The meeting was supposed to start at 19:30 Moscow time, but was postponed for an hour due to heavy snowfall. «We are a northern country, sometimes it snows in April, sometimes it doesn't snow in December. Nothing is written in the regulations about this. All these squealing about the weather, in my opinion, is unworthy of a man's game. You could still moan about the first half, but in the second field it was normal. Yes, the lawn is damp, but it is damp even in a downpour. Or is it now also impossible to play in a downpour? Question why Lokomotiv did not prepare the field for the start of the game. It was possible to remove the snow with tractors in an hour, then cover it with a film and remove it before the start of the match. There are too many discussions around non-football processes,» Chervichenko said. «About the moment with Beck Beck, I can’t say for sure whether there was a violation on the red or not. In every round, someone goes into contact with a straight foot — someone is shown a card, someone is not. There was a moment with Ayrton recently. I don’t understand where a man must put his foot on, he is not a grasshopper. and moments are treated differently. I don’t know who is right and who is to blame,” the expert added. Chervichenko also noted that the chief referee of the match, Sergey Karasev, made the right decision by canceling the goal of Quincy Promes due to offside. “If VAR sees that there is offside, why be indignant? I am sure that if this goal were counted, then on the other hand there would also be such a cry against Spartak. It is clear that emotions are running high, the season is a failure. Spartak still has one of the best situations in the league — the legionnaires did not run away en masse,» the agency's interlocutor concluded.
