Date: 26 November 2023 / League: Polish fourth tier Final Score: 0-1 / Attendance: approx. 700 Experience Finally, I have the time to catch-up on posts, matches and photos that I failed to deliver at a more relevant time…
Central Poland
Date: 18 February 2024 / League: Polish top flight Final Score: 0-2 / Attendance: 14,893 Experience The winter break firmly now firmly behind us (cheerio, mother f***er!), it’s been a restart to cherish – and what better way to…
Date: 25 November 2023 / League: Polish top tier Final Score: 2-2 / Attendance: 25,656 Experience Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Żyleta – the gathering point for Legia’s most ardent fans – Saturday’s match…
Date: 13 September 2023 / League: Polish regional cup Final Score: 0-5 / Attendance: approx. 900 Experience Ah, the romance of the cup! Of the many fundamental differences between Polish and English football, I reckon that the disparate attitudes…
Date: 2 September 2023 / League: Polish 2nd tier Final Score: 3-0 / Attendance: 13,504 Experience As if I didn’t know already, last weekend underlined just how pointless it is to plan ahead in Poland. Having already booked train…
Date: 12 August 2023 / League: Polish 5th tier Final Score: 2-0 / Attendance: approx. 100 Experience I like football grounds that look as if they pre-date the time of dinosaurs, so when I visited Chemik in April (for…
Date: 19 August 2023 / League: who knows – seventh tier? Final Score: 1-0 / Attendance: approx. 100 Experience You can blame it on the fixture list, the holiday season or, even, the utter bastard of a heatwave that’s…
Date: 12 August 2023 / League: Polish 4th tier Final Score: 0-0 / Attendance: 3,290 Experience When the fixture list was first released, I think the reaction was a collective sigh of disappointment – certainly among my friends, anyhow.…
Date: 17 June 2023 / League: Polish 5th tier Final Score: 0-2 / Attendance: 1,000 approx. Experience Radomsko had been beeping on my ‘to do’ list for years, but despite being just a two-hour journey from Warsaw, whenever I’d…
Date: 8 July 2023 / League: pre-season friendly Final Score: 1-1 / Attendance: 350 Experience I don’t need all that much hindsight to call out 22/23 as being an absolute classic of a season. Even so, when it finished…