Date: 15 September 2024 / League: Polish sixth tier (I think!) Final Score: 5-0 / Attendance: approx. 450 Experience Bangers come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes, you remember a game for the epic journey that it took; others,…
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Zamek Kamieniec Zabkowice v Gornik Walbrzych
Date: 12 May 2024 / League: Polish sixth tier Final Score: 0-3 / Attendance: 550 Everyone that travels extensively for football pauses at some stage to consider the madness of the pastime; there are moments doubts can set in…
Date: 1 May 2024 / League: Polish fifth tier Final Score: 1-1 / Attendance: 1,300 This hobby can sometimes grind you down – in fact, I think this football lark isn’t so much a hobby as it is a…
Date: 2 December 2023 / League: Polish second tier Final Score: 1-1 / Attendance: 2,360 Experience Once every few years, along comes the kind of game that goes down in legend – and on Saturday, I was treated to…
Date: 14 October 2023 / League: Polish sixth tier (possibly!) Final Score: 2-2 / Attendance: approx. 900 Experience With most of the lower leagues already closed for the winter break, it’s doubtful that I’ll see anything till next year…
Date: 27 August 2023 / League: Polish 5th tier Final Score: 2-1 / Attendance: approx. 800 Experience For me, the heart of Polish football beats the loudest not in the top tier stadiums, but in tertiary towns like Slupsk…
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: 10 June 2023 / League: Polish sixth tier Final Score: 2-4 (match abandoned) / Attendance: 950 Experience Zap, pow, wallop! Abandoned on 87 minutes due to crowd trouble, this local derby started slowly only to finish in feisty…
Date: 8 June 2023 / League: Polish sixth tier Final Score: 0-6 / Attendance: approx. 300 Experience I’ll be straight, it wasn’t until 2019 I first heard of Okocimsko Brzesko, and even then it took a major crowd disturbance…
