The BBC website have just posted this article regarding a rogue state within Europe that I visited last year and the football team based in its so-called 'capital city'.

I believe that the 'national flag' is the only one in the world that still bears a hammer and sickle and shares pride of place with a Russian flag on all the public buildings, one of which, a very eerie Soviet-like edifice (and not open to the public), I gained access to after I pleaded with the babushka at entrance that I urgently needed access to a loo, the English word 'toilet' thankfully being close to its Russian equivalent.

I entered via a local bus (beaten up minibus) from Moldova and exited into Ukraine, where I visited Odessa and Kiev before travelling to Belarus, which meant that I have visited every European country. Anyway, enough of my old tosh: have a read about this fascinating sliver of Europe known as Transnistria.

The whole place is very eerie.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48281482