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Spartak in subway sprint for kick-off.
(From Guardian Unlimited)
It is Moscow's equivalent of "the dog ate my homework".
Players at Spartak football club have fallen back on a hallowed excuse for their 0-1 Champions League defeat to Inter Milan: "We got stuck in traffic."
Marooned in gridlock as they made their way to the match at Luzhniki stadium last night, the team were forced to abandon their bus and sprint for the metro. They arrived within a whisker of kick-off and charged straight on to the pitch, only to concede a goal within 58 seconds. "We pretty much just got out of the metro and they scored," the disgruntled captain, Yegor Titov, said today as the team licked their wounds.
The players' fate provoked sympathy among ordinary Muscovite drivers, who can spend hours each week sitting in jams. Being cornered in traffic is a plausible excise for any spoiled assignation.
It was an alert fan - who had himself taken three hours and 40 minutes to cross the city by car - who knocked on the bus window and warned the team they could ...
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