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…
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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…
Date: 17 May 2023 / League: Polish reiongal cup (semi-final) Final Score: 0-0 (2-4 pens) / Attendance: approx. 1,200 Experience Steeped in history, and marked out by its Teutonic bastions and Gothic landmarks, it is scant surprise that there…
Experience There are some who will know the walled, medieval city of Torun as the spiritual home of gingerbread. Others, as the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus, the first astronomer to determine that the world did, in fact, revolve around…
Date: 5 May 2023 / League: Polish second tier Final Score: 3-2 / Attendance: 14,845 Experience So here was the kind of game I love: an end-of-season six-pointer played under the summer night’s glow of Friday evening floodlights. With…
Date: 2 May 2023 / League: Polish Cup Final Final Score: 0-0 (Legia win 6-5 on pens) / Attendance: 44,701 Experience No trains, no buses, no 4 a.m. starts and no overnight stays – living as I do within…
Date: 22 April 2023 / League: Polish 7th tier Final Score: 5-2 / Attendance: approx. 50 Experience Asked to name my five favourite grounds in Poland, and I would not hesitate to include the Kosa Arena high on that…