Date: 1 October 2023 / League: possibly 7th tier of the Polish pyramid Final Score: 0-2 / Attendance: approx. 50 Experience I’m the first to admit, when it comes to uncovering some of the more obscure grounds I am…
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Date: 16 September 2023 / League: Polish 4th tier Final Score: 3-2 / Attendance: approx. 150 Experience What’s that distant echo you can hear ringing in your ear? Oh, that’ll be me, preaching on about how I hate modern…
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: 16 September 2023 / League: Polish sixth tier Final Score: 1-2 / Attendance: approx. 100 Experience The number of games that I still need to write up isn’t that far off triple figures, but there are some that…
Date: 3 September 2023 / League: Polish 2nd tier Final Score: 1-1 / Attendance: 8,573 Experience One of the things I love about this rather demented football obsession is the places it takes you to – Bielsko-Biala, for instance,…
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: 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.…
