With 4,000 miles seperating them and the country's capital, it is safe to say that Spartak Vulkan of Russia are pretty remote. Kevin O'Flynn looks at the the team nearer Japan then any other part of Europe
Find Moscow on your map and head east. Take a breather after 375 miles – Torquay to Middlesbrough – and keep going. After 700 miles you reach Second Division (that is, third-level) Zenit Chelyabinsk. Another 2,200 miles and you’re in Siberia – Lokomotiv Chita, a mid-table First Division club. Go on past Siberia to Kamchatka, the sheep’s tail of a peninsula that hangs down towards Japan in the far east of Russia.