FC Moscow manager and legendary Soviet striker Oleg Blokhin has given new meaning to the term 'media offensive', after producing a hostile display at the club's recent training session.

The team had called it an 'open' training session, a chance for Russian journalists to get a look at new coach Oleg Blokhin and his squad.

But from the very start the coach seemed to have a flea in his ear and did not welcome the media attention, showing his disgust at the media, who had dared to try and film his players in training.

Interest in Blokhin, the 1975 European Footballer of the Year, is understandable. A star of the Soviet national team of the 80s, he maintained his high profile by going on to manage Greek champions Olympiakos, and more recently the Ukrainian national side.

At the end of the training session, the Ukrainian refused to undertake any media interviews.

“It is not a press conference, is it? I’ve had neither breakfast nor lunch today. So let me just have dinner. I am a human being, I deserve a meal,” he said.

Journalists, however, were left hungry, and such a situatuation is not uncommon in the Russian Premier League.

Just one week into the season, with millions of football fans hungry for the latest info on their favourite teams, only one side, Dick Advocaat's Zenit Saint Petersburg, have so far offered up their players for interview by the media. This means for fans of the other 15 teams, it's a matter of guesswork as to what's going on at their beloved clubs.