It is 1559.2 miles from Moscow to Clissold Park. The interweb told me, so it must be true. At 10.02pm local time yesterday evening Moscow and N16 shared a balmy 21 degrees Celsius, if not much else.The population of Moscow is similar to that of the Tecumsehs; a fair few locals, a few expats, a smattering of those who have been here forever and a guy in the corner quoting Marx. There are ducks in Moscow, but disappointingly, no wild bears padding quietly amongst the crazed maypole dance of Lada Sputniks and Zighulis on the MKAD.
In 1971, besides the first plaintive wails of Cymru's first dual-boxered son, the Russians completed the first space station, the imaginatively named DOS-7K. One can only assume from this that all the decent project names had been reserved by Len Deighton some years previously.
Pravda also reported the death of pensioner N. Khrushchev in a single line somewhere on page 23; a demonstration of how the mighty can fall.
His headstone can be found in Novodevichy Cemetery, where the white half symbolises the good that he achieved and the black the bad.
Reports that his encouragement of the Germans to build the Berlin Wall provided inspiration for Elton John's tribute, Nikita are unconfirmed, but if true definitely belong to the dark side.
May the 9th is Victory Day. It is therefore unfortunate that the Tecumsehs' next match falls on the 10th. However given the Tecumseh tradition of being late and staying later, I am sure that this will not pose too much of a problem. The outfield's a bit dicey when filled with tanks.
In the words of Nikita: Мы вас похороним!
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