Utkin – Dzyube: “You don’t like advertising – go drive a tram”

Athletistic/Football. Well-known sports commentator and journalist Vasily Utkin expressed his thoughts on the recent conflict between Artyom Dzyuba and a journalist. Recall that after the match of the 4th round of the RPL, in which Lokomotiv played with the Wings of the Soviets (1-1), the journalist asked Dzyuba a question, aimed at obtaining a reaction from the striker to the criticism of a well-known coach Igor Shalimov. The Railways team striker rudely responded to the media representative, accompanying his words with threats that he would ‘put the phone in the same place’. As a result, the FTC suspended Dziuba for two conditional matches.

“I remember a classic anecdote. The story of a boy who played the violin for five hours, driving everyone around him crazy. But then they took the violin out of “this place” for only five minutes. Where is the fairness of the exchange? There is no justice here. The guys got a little burned and scattered.

Dzyuba received a suspended two-match ban. But forgive me, but what is ‘probation’ in football? On the other hand, the journalist admitted that he does not see any threats in Dziuba’s remarks, but he sees… I don’t know what he sees there. As a result, ordinary rude behavior in public space.

Dziuba, as well as two Leonids (Slutsky and Goldman, agent), also representing his interests in this situation, I can only say one thing: if you don’t like the publicity, go drive a tram! It is a highly respected job. Notice, I’m not talking about the bus – it has a steering wheel and the tram has a joystick,” Utkin said in his video on his YouTube channel.

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