Fratria. Season 2009 results.

Season 2009 has come to an end. Now it’s time to sum it up.

I will break this article into the following chapters:

1. Our support

2. Tours

3. Membership

4. Relationships with the club

5. Social projects

6. Our site

7. The finance

8. The general resume and plans for 2010

Some sections are written by those who are responsible for these directions with my small edition.

I will gradually walk along the whole season and try to mention all the significant moments of this year.

All has begun in a low season period when we found out that Zenit was going to be our rival in the first round of the championship. We have been slowly, approximately preparing for this game for about a month. We have decided to replace the usual modules with small flags and to display a composition from them that we hadn't done earlier. But if 15-16 thousand sheets of paper are rather inexpensive and not volume, more than 12000 flags on staffs make a full van and a heap of work. But as we have begun the preparation in advance, everything has been made without any haste, as it had been planned. The results you could observe at the first round match.

("Our aim")

The main mistakes:

- Flags needed to be made one and a half - two times larger;

- The figure 1 on a banner needed to be shaded in order to look brighter.

In the 4th round there happened a significant enough event. Basically uninteresting match with FC "Moskva" will be remembered by the first serious attempt to make a mass, organized corteo. Before that case there was an attempt on a hockey in Minsk (about 20 people) and in the second round in Krasnodar (roughly 300 people).

I perfectly remember the first reaction - the majority mocked and neighed at it. Even our fans were among those who laughed at this corteo. And the participants sweared: "we went too quickly", "the support was awful" etc. My only comment on this corteo on one of the sites was: "He laughs best who laughs last!"

When in the beginning of 2009 we met and while drinking a couple of beers discussed a forthcoming season, we have decided to pay special attention to the away games: to make our away sectors more colourful and probably even to arrange small performances. This year has presented to us superb Ramenskoe, Rostov, Kazan.

2 weeks after the game with FC "Moskva" we had an away match in Kazan. Time has come to answer to all the bullshitters and "well-wishers" and in Kazan we have organized a magnificent, tremendous corteo, gathered more than 1500 people!

Again we made several mistakes: from time to time we went too quickly, the support was not very сool, but we gradually gained an excellent experience.

Thanks to the team (we have won 2-0), the match in Kazan besides the fuckin' banner was remembered by colourful, loud and massive support.

The following match with "Dynamo" should be noted because of a small performance.

("Victory only")

("Shoot us all")

Keeping in mind that in addition at this particular time motherfucker major Evsyukov has shot people in a supermarket, cops after this action were extremely angry.

The match in Cherkizovo with "Lokomotiv" in the 11th round was remembered by a good support and a mass piro show.

The middle of July besides a heat has presented to us a double south tour in Rostov and Krasnodar (Russian cup game). In Rostov a corteo has been again organized. We chose a meeting place by means of internet maps and have chosen it, to put it mildly, unsuccessfully. The spot, on which the meeting was planned, has been surrounded by roads from different directions, and on the way we had a filling station. Nobody planned to burn down the town, so the meeting place was transferred 500 meters closer to the stadium already on the match day. As a result, having waited and having collected about 1000 people, we made our way to the stadium, having barred the road for a while. In my opinion, it was our best corteo of the season.

It has turned out to be really loud and colourful. While we were marching to the stadium, the bus with our team caught up the column and has got in a small human jam. It was a bit funny - the huge crowd approaches the stadium with red-white banners and flags and our bus drives to the territory right behind them.

It is well seen on this photo at the end of a column.

The match has once again collected an unbelievable number of the red-whites. By different estimations 3500-4000 people have gone on tour to this game. As the game started at 21-00 local time because of a heat, we have decided to illuminate a banner with flares as it already got dark at this time. As a background, we have laid out red-white flags on a tribune. For an away game the performance was very adequate.

Actually it wasn't done without a mistake - we have forgotten the letter "S" at the end of the word "LIKE". Well, it happens to everyone.

The support on the match was excellent as well.

The next game was with the scum (cska), and we prepared for a long time for it. We have decided to make a really abrupt composition for the derby, to represent one of masterpieces of the world painting, one of Michelangelo frescos "Adam's Creation". The task was clear - to transfer one in one the legendary image on the biggest cloth we whenever sewed (80x30 meters)! Our artist Andryukha has devoted almost a week to it, drawing in details each stroke and trying a lot. And when it is not even a day, several hours till the match, the young squad of Yaroslavka comes to the drawing place, burns a part of a cloth and beats up the artists. At that moment there was such anger and feeling of powerlessness that nothing can be changed, that it is hard to express it in words. Almost fortnight work (before drawing this large object was sewed) of loads of people were going to come to nothing. I then have immediately left for Lyublino, where it has all occurred, to support guys and girls. What else was possible to do at 1 o'clock in the morning on the derby day? A lot - as it turned out. Literally everyone who only could have arrived within an hour to the place of drawing. People left cottages, holidays and birthdays and went to Lyublino to help. Someone has brought fabric pieces, someone - threads, someone - paint, and during the whole night more than 100 people sewed and drew, restoring the burnt part. During that moment I personally was really proud for our fans. That fire in the eyes of all the participants of that night, not indifferent to what had happened, is worth a lot.

We've done it in time, and in the morning the banner was in Luzhniki. We were making the final strokes already on a stadium parking to show it to the police. It was our best answer to the fuckin' horses who have been bullshitting for the whole night in the Internet, and at 2pm the same day they have put their tongues into their asses!

The team has not let us down as well. The victory in the derby 2-1 was the best gift and reward for all the efforts. Our support was magnificent. Probably, it was the happiest day in this season. And I personally consider this action the best in 2009.

Nalchik away this year was absolutely unremarkable. Everything has passed marvelously silently and easy. I will still note a kind of a new practice. We have ordered minibuses for all the comers from Pyatigorsk to Nalchik, for all the fans they were absolutely free. I suppose this tradition will continue the next year.

The following away game was in Grozny, and it took place on kadyrov-senior's birthday and has coincided with several explosions in Grozny for about a couple of days before our arrival. All the previous days have passed in discussion of whether it was dangerous to go there. In connection with a difficult situation in republic even the second team played on the same day with the first one. So everybody visited two matches in one day, having had time to support the young team. The tour has passed extremely easy and without any incidents, and the team shamed all the whiners and alarmists, confidently having beaten Terek, for which before flying away has received a loud applause at the airport from our charter. Still this tour for 160 fans from approximately 400 that were on sector in Grozny, will be remembered by the fact that the plane because of bad weather could not land in Moscow and landed in. Kazan where we had to spend about 9 hours, and only after that we could at least take off for Moscow.

Ramenskoe, which fell upon us in 22nd round, has seen a colourful enough action. For the first time at this stadium the banner has completely closed one of the tribunes. 70x18 meters, 100% hand made. And from above it has been illuminated by stroboscopes. It has turned out to be more than impressive.

From a match in Ramenskoe Spartak has made a 6 match victorious series, having approached us to the champion's title more than ever this year. But these dreams have been broken down in Samara. Another corteo has collected only 400-500 people and the route was hilarious - nearby a cemetery. The tour was marked also by the day before loss of one of the Gladiators Firm members, Lesha Kosoy. R.I.P.

The match itself was terrible - the megaphone refused to work on a cold, drum membranes have torn immediately, the number of away fans was enormous but the number made no use that evening. Support was practically absent, as well as our team on the field. A failure in all the ways, and goodbye to the champion's title. The main disappointment of year.

But what fan does not trust in the team up to the end? While there were even theoretical chances of a victory, certainly, all of us trusted in our team-Cinderella and our Valera-the Wizard. The following, penultimate match of a season, with horses. There is nothing to lose. And we have devoted the pre-match performance to it - All In, a poker term when you stake all you have, and  Valera Karpin on a cloth, sitting at the table in the form of a football ground, throwing on it two main chips of the season - Alex and Welliton.

A little mistake was made concerning the size of the banner, we missed literally 5 meters at width, and also we have badly stretched out the banner at the bottom. I dump it on nerves which have been strained this day. The composition was completed by the most powerful piro-show, no doubt, the best of the year. It is useless to watch photos, it is necessary to have a look at the video. It was unrealy amazing. The support has been the best in the season during the first 15 minutes, but then went down a little and woke up only when we scored the third goal. The most vexing defeat and we could forget about the champion's title that year.

And here it is, the 30th round in which we need nothing, and only the victory is necessary for Zenith to take the bronze. Red-white Saint-Petersburg has, as always, colourfully met the team arrived in Pulkovo.

And a day before the game, there was a golden match of the second teams where the victory was necessary for us. Our guys have been attacking during the whole game, had a heap of moments and could score at least 5 goals. But it was unlucky for us that day, the missed penalty goal and a loss 0-1.

The next morning was promising. We did not prepare any performance, for us the match meant nothing, and as always we devote performance to the team, there was nothing to say but just "Thanks for the season"! But we have decided to make a corteo. Tell to me who else, except for us, is ready and capable to make at present a good corteo in Piter? Nobody! Yes, we wanted to make it in a radical way. Yes, we wanted to make it special, unlike all the previous. So that the Zenit fans simply told after it that "they are fuckin' crazy". And we have almost done it. It is unnecessary to retell everything that happened in Piter before the game.. It has already been made a lot of times. And let even it has caused an ambiguous reaction, and let it has lasted for only 5 minutes, but it were abrupt 5 minutes, it was real ultra - direct, sincere and uncompromising!

It was the bullet point of this season. The season of victories, the season of disappointments and the season of hopes.

Summing up our support of the year, I will tell that we have acted this year more, than adequately. We have perfectly adjusted corteos, we have made some very good actions, we have broken all the possible records of away games attendance. The only thing, in which we have not really promoted, is singing. From time to time the sound was excellent, but in comparison to the 2008, there is no great progress. New tunes are needed; we need to complicate them, to diversify the repertoire with a greater number of songs. And we will put an emphasis on this during the low season period at hockey games.

My report would not be full if I have not given a word to one more our capo, my good friend and colleague, Sasha Kriks, who was a capo on most of our games this year. Here're his impressions of the season:

"Looking back, we name the season "ambiguous" for the 100th time. Though, this year it was unequivocal, probably, only for Barcelona. There is nothing what we now regret about, so, we didn't do anything for nothing. Basically, it is possible to tell that the actions are getting more and more sensible. Today it's hard to surprise anyone with a module show, and to be the first, it is always necessary to hit the target and we tried to do so. In the first round against Zenith the performance «Our aim» has designated our team a task for the season, in the penultimate round against horses when the destiny of medals was solved, there was a competent action «All in», pointing our intentions to stake everything, but to be the first. It is a pity we had Dzhanaev at river, but shit happens. Next time we will be lucky enough. It is necessary to note also our action in the summer derby. Very few people in the country ever achieved such quality of drawing as we did, and the majority will never achieve it. Support could be better."

Summarizing the most important chapter of this report, I wish to notice that we have won the most objective, in my opinion, voting on the best performance of year in Russia which annually conducts Championat.ru, Ultras Life magazine and a portal russian-ultras.com.

And we have won unconditionally and have left competitors far behind. It is worth mentioning that another our action also took the second place, and a performance with "masterpiece" which "does not burn" has not even been included into the voting list: http://performance.fanat.ru.

Our performance is now really the best in Russia, without any reservations and subjunctive moods.

As a small P.S. of this chapter, I remind you that we are making an annual DVD as a report on the last season where you will see the brightest and colourful moments of this year and will keep them in memory. There will be full exclusive video of all our actions and corteos, from preparations and lots of other pieces which did not appear in the Internet. This year we will change the format of this video a little, and it will be no more a simple set of clips of the season, but something new and more interesting. Watch the news and wait for the beginning of sales. It will be already our 4th DVD.

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2. Tours

This year we have organized tours practically to all the Spartak away games, except Tomsk. For the first time there was an experience of the organization of a charter (Grozny away) thanks to which 160 people have had an opportunity to visit this town. Besides away games of Spartak we have organized a tour to a national team match in Helsinki. It was the first experience with the organization of two coaches. It was not done without a serious mistake on which we could not affect then, but we have received a good lesson for the future. Thanks to Fratria, about 2000 people have visited away games in 2009. Much to our regret, we can not still solve a number of problems which appear every year: good buses and adequate drivers. Because of these two things it was necessary to search for other buses literally in some hours before the trip a few times in the season. Next year I very much hope to sign a contract with a serious transport company, which has excellent new buses. If it is done, the quality and speed of movement on our buses will increase manyfold. I will also note such an important thing as discipline in buses, - this year it became 10 times better. For the whole year we have never paid any penalty for any damages to the buses as we did all the previous years.

Summarizing, I will tell that, we have definitely made a step forward in a direction of the organization of tours. For the first time we have organized not only buses, but also a charter and rail coaches. But, concerning bus trips (the overwhelming majority chooses bus tours) there was no progress. The same problems with buses are constantly fraying the nerves. I very much hope to solve them during the low season period.

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3. Membership

For the first time we have started the system of membership in Fratria. We have made fan cards, and any interested person who supports our movement, could get it. This idea is not new and is widely enough used by many ultras groups of Europe. During the year about 900 cards have been bought. The price in the beginning of the year was 1000 rubles, the price from August till the end of this year was only 400 rubles. Thanks to the cards we have earned about half a million rubles which have very much helped us during the year. As everything new causes in the majority, at least, vigilance and, as a maximum, aversion and aggression, both our "friends" and opponents have flung mud at us for the introduction of these cards. As a result everybody is now going the same way as it is difficult enough for any ultras group to exist and develop without membership dues. These cards will appear in the majority of fan movements, and besides I will note, that we, Spartak, were the first in Russia in this direction.

As for our cards, besides that each owner of a card has received the most convenient possibility to book tickets online for the matches of Spartak and Russian national team (both home and away), all the members of Fratria have received a number of pleasant bonuses in the form of discounts which also save money. We have tried to make our cards also economic, giving the owners of the cards discounts for tours on away games. It would be desirable to hope that the next year more of these cards would be bought.

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4. Relationships with the club

With the Karpin's coming to the club a lot has changed. I describe the most important for us - club and fan movement relations. We have adjusted the direct contact with Karpin in the end of 2008. Process of renewal the official fan-club and creation an absolutely new structure as a matter of fact then has begun. Unfortunately, this process has not passed without serious consequences for our fan movement and has provoked the conflict between "Old Guards" and Fratria. I am glad that certain people have understood and recognized their wrongfulness; as a result, Volodya Grishin (Major) since recent time works again in the club, in official fan-club of Spartak. The official fan-club for all this time has been closely working together with Fratria. Thanks to fan-club the charter to Grozny has been partially paid. Thanks to fan-club practically on each away match of this year tickets were on sale in Moscow. Denis Denskiy flied approximately one week before a match to a city where we would then play, and brought tickets to Moscow where they were sold to various fan associations and owners of season tickets, which, certainly, simplified our life a lot. Thanks to close cooperation, it was possible to hold a very representative annual "Memory Tournament" which took place this time in Luzniki and has collected about 40 teams from all over Russia and even from abroad. We have also held together the "Alenichev Cup" in Turkey which has collected not so many fans, but has passed in a magnificent atmosphere, and everyone who has visited it, has received loads of positive emotions. Fratria has finally bought the necessary equipment and became the official partner of the club in the ticket distribution. Also now we are holding a very serious competition on Ms. Spartak, team rewarding with silver medals (we take part in working out the scenario and we will partially send the invitations), rewarding the fans who visited all the games of the past season and the organization of a team-fans meeting. Actually, Fratria now participates in all the club actions that certainly pleases and only promotes the rapprochement of club and fans. Mutual understanding presents now at all levels, since security service and up to the general director of the club. We try to unite our efforts as much as possible. At last the club has come to understanding of necessity of dense work with our fan movement thanks to the management and personally to Valeriy Karpin. I'm sure that our cooperation will develop and only get stronger the next year.

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 5. Social projects

We try not to limit our activity only to support and the organization of our tribunes. We also develop some social projects.  I would like to mention the following three:

- "Alenichev Cup";
- "Memory Tournament";
- helping the children's homes.

"Alenichev cup" besides a commercial component has a social implication. In May the first cup in Turkey on which we have taken out many our veterans including the legends of Spartak - Gavrilov, Cherenkov and others has taken place. For many of them, it is a real financial support which they lack sometimes. In their years football players earned not as much as the "stars" of today, as you understand. Maybe the first "Alenichev's Cup" was unprofitable and has been spent only thanks to our fan Timur and his company "Football Galaxy", for which we express him big gratitude, I hope, the next year this idea will not vanish and will become, besides a good rest and leisure, a quite good possibility to feel our love and respect for our deserved veterans.

Official site of the tournament: http://alenichev-cup.ru.

We organize the "Memory tournament" already the second year. This year it has passed in Luzhniki. This year we could organize a very representative tournament - there have arrived teams from Riga, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Rostov, Orel, Nizhniy Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, Kaliningrad and Vladimir! 40 teams! It is probably a limit for a one-day tournament. Thanks to the tournament, we have collected about 200.000 rubles which have been transferred to relatives of victims of the 1982 year tragedy. The tournament mission was to honour the memory of all the Spartak fans died that time and to help the initiative group of relatives who lost then their children. The tournament, unequivocally, will be developed and improved.

You can watch the details here: http://october20.ru/tour/.

The third, most volume point of our social projects is helping children's homes. These are not single actions, they are systematic and it is an absolutely uneasy work which our guys and girls have been conducting for already a couple years. Therefore I give a word to the person responsible for this question in our organization - Anton "AntoSKA":

"This year we have made many charitable actions, more than last year. We took children to football (a match with cska in Luzhniki, Legends Cup, two matches of the national team), they have visited a New Year party in the Kremlin palace, and several hockey matches of HC Spartak. Also we carried out already traditional actions: a pancake week, June 1st holiday, Knowledge Day (this time we have brought computers and office equipment for their computer room), the New Year's action (gifts, a New Year's fairy tale, the feast).

For such work big money is necessary. But it is worth it. And probably the welfare fund organization which we are creating will help us."

Besides this all we always try to help all the participants of our fan movement. And when someone gets into trouble and the urgent help is necessary, we are always ready to help. And when such help was required to an absolutely young guy, Zhenya Nagatinskiy, literally in a week we have held a charitable auction and a charitable poker tournament, and also have collected donations thanks to what in short terms we have collected the necessary sum for Zhenya's operation and saved his life. The power of a fan movement is defined not only by quantity of firms and beauty of performance, but frequently by such things as mutual aid in a difficult minute. Remember and do not pass by, if once again you will see an appeal about a whip-round in help to someone. Today you will help, tomorrow you will be helped.

One for all and all for one!

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6.  Our site

The site fratria.ru was launched in the end of 2005 with a usual forum and desire to make the best fan site of Spartak. 4 years have passed, and I can tell that we made it. The most important thing that we managed to create a group of adherents who DAILY conduct frequently invisible work of improving of our site. Now we've got the biggest audio archive, the biggest section devoted to Spartak games in various tournaments, and not only football tournaments, a splendid section "On tour" which use not only red-whites, but also many opponents, admitting it in private conversations. The hugest sections "Links" and "Games". Our site is unique in the fan runet, and maybe in the fan world as it is translated into so many languages, and it is one more our pride! Our only weak point is the section "Photo"; we know it and believe we conduct careful work to correct it. All it would not be possible without our chief manager and programmer Yaroslav aka meridian_S, and I ask him to speak for the story about the work done during 2009:

"The fourth season for our site comes to an end. And, as always, it comes to and end with my message, in which I would like to look back to the last year to estimate what has been made on a site. The site grew and was filled with sections and content. Those, to whom the comparison is interesting, can watch the news about the results of the 2008. Those, who watched our site this year, know that this year new sections of our site were opened. They are: Goal-scorers, the Team and Guestbook, Informer is rewritten, in "the Season" there appeared minifootball matches, the site Coin box has been opened and grown to a minichat. Well and the main thing - we now have a new Forum and Blogs. And though for many users these updatings were not unequivocally positive, believe, it was impossible to live further with an old version of the forum, and we tried that transition to pass with minimal problems.

Except this all, the site fratria.org was added with new languages, sections "the Team", "the Season" and a Forum. The site fratria.tel - our cut-away to the international help base of contacts is opened.

Now about the most interesting – the statistics.

For comparison I will mention the number of match statistics (hockey, football and minifootball added on our site:

-  2006 season 1000

- 2007 season 3240 (+2240)

- 2008 season 7229 (+3989)

- 2009 season 11637 (+4403)

We didn't grow twice as earlier, but still we filled more matches than any previous year! For example, all the Russian championships have been completed. In 2010 there will be not less positive events in a site life, both in development of its services, and in filling its existing sections. At least, we already prepare for you new sections and content. Well and still a couple of sites, I hope, we will open in addition to the present ones. Visit us more often and join the site editors’ crew, free vacancies will be declared within the next few days. United we can more!"

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7. The finance

As always, our most weak point. It's a cause for the constant gossips, hearings and inventions. Inside Fratria there is a strict enough financial discipline, that is I at any moment can tell, how much money and on what we have spent, for example... on 5th of March. Or on June, 20th. Or in any other day of a year. The daily reporting is conducted, and constantly we had disputes, whether it is necessary to publish the financial report in the open access. At least the approximate one. And we always came to the agreement that it makes no sense. However our organization grows, more and more people support us and join us. We are opened for everyone, as well as our financial plan.

So, the costs of 2009:

About 1.000.000 rubles was spent on performances.

Besides the actions, in this list are included all our text banners, new flags, numerous fishing tackles, membranes for the drums, sticks, new megaphones, adhesive tapes, rent of halls for drawing, rent of vans when it was required etc..

The maintenance of the office costs approximately 2.500.000 rubles.

It includes office rent, payment of utilities, the Internet, phone, the salary of two employees, office consumable materials, taxes.

250.000 rubles have been spent on support and development of our site.

It includes payment of a hosting and the minimum expenditure for the round-the-clock administration.

The program of support of a children's home costs 200.000 rubles.

Including every possible gifts for children, their visiting matches, food, fuel etc.. And that is the list without including here "Alenichev Cup" and "Memory Tournament".

Summarizing the data, we see that Fratria budget in 2009 was about 3.950.000 rubles

Now, what makes our income:

- Monthly payments of the initiative groups and firms, plus fan cards have brought us about 1.000.000 rubles;

- Fratria shop allows covering 50% of office costs;

- Organized tours have brought us about 300.000 rubles, thus, that some of them didn't pay their way;

- Site advertisement has brought us a little.

So we come to a conclusion, that we have a budget deficit and those holes which should be closed exclusively at our own expenses.

Do not think that someone is complaining about it. Here the overall picture in order for anybody to not have illusions is simply presented. The deficiency always presented, it even was increasing with the growth of our organization. It is natural that we do not do nothing and we try to change this situation in every possible way. We have moved to the new office that will allow us to cut its expenses approximately on 30% in 2010. We have signed the contract with club about ticket distribution, and we count very much on profit from it. Nothing new, except how to try to reduce expenses and to search for new ways of earnings, in this world nobody has thought up and will not think up, therefore we do all we can. We move forwards but still I have to say that at times it is really hard.

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8. The general resume and plans for 2010

There are heaps of them.

1. To try to adjust the finance. You will tell that it not the most important aspect, but believe me, you are wrong. Almost each performance or the action is done at the last minute and with haste, not because we're idiots and cannot normally plan it. That is why because almost always there is no money in time. And till the time we collect the necessary sum, while we buy everything that is needed, there remains little time, and as you understand it influences the quality of our performance, when there is no time to concentrate on details. At present we do not have any stable income item (except shop and membership dues) on which we can 100% rely, therefore it is possible only to make forecasts. It does not allow, to a huge regret, to make any accurate budget and to try to carry it out. We very much count on the profit from sailing the season tickets and fan cards. With our competent work and your support, in winter months we can already put a quite good base for the whole year.

As for the fan cards, in 2010 their price will be only 800 rubles, and for owners of this year cards and members of initiative groups and firms - only 500 rubles. It's very little, and it is, besides your contribution in our support and our movement, also economy of means in the form of every possible discounts. More in detail about cards I will write later.

2. It is essential to improve our singing.

It is pleasant that we don't need any money for this. For this purpose we will need to diversify the tunes, to complicate them and to start to sing at last, instead of shouting. We will set to this very seriously.

3. We always develop the performance.

Ideas, the realization, new materials, creation. This purpose is constant and invariable. The task for 2010 is to make the action better than "Our city - your capital".

4. To improve the organization of tours, especially because of the forthcoming euro tours. It is necessary to sign at last the contract with a good transport company and to stop searching for any unknown private buses.

5. To reform MFSO Spartak. Work in this direction is actively enough conducted throughout last half a year. But the problem is much more serious, than to someone can seem. The problem of reformation the Spartak Society will be one of the priorities, and we hope for a full mutual understanding with MFSO Spartak and a fruitful teamwork in 2010.

6. To hold 1-2 football tournaments besides "Memory Tournament" among Spartak fans and if it would be possible - to organize friendlies with the fans of the teams which we will play with in the Champions League in the autumn 2010.

7. To adjust work with regions and to start to open regional branches of Fratria.

8. To come to an agreement with the police at last about our own stewards on matches of Spartak.

9. To exclude pyrotechnics on Champions League matches, not to cross up the club (UEFA fines greatly for this).

10. Well and the tenth purpose is traditional - to be always the first! To win in the anniversary 10th year, the anniversary 10th champion's title, to stay united, stronger than the enemies and envious people!

Summarizing all the aforesaid, I will note the fact of constant development. Wrong or dishonest things will never develop with such speed, so almost everything is done correctly and as I like to repeat, the one who does nothing is not mistaken. We are not afraid to do, we are not afraid to make mistakes. We are full of strength and self-confidence. Only for 4 years we have grown in the largest Russian, independent fan organization, only thanks to own efforts, enthusiasm, self-confidence and faith in each other. But we perfectly understand that a lot should still be done, that there is no limit to perfection and on each of resulted above points we still have to work. That's what we will do next year!

Join us!

One for all and all for one!!!

By Комбат

Translation by Authentik