Date: 21 September 2024 / League: Polish eighth tier (I think!) Final Score: 0-1 / Attendance: approx. 70 Experience What a name. Even in the canon of Polish tongue-twisters, Siemianowiczanka Siemianowice Slaskie stands out as something of a mouthful…
Date: 1 June 2024 / League: Polish sixth tier Final Score: 0-1 / Attendance: approx. 400 Experience I had a fantastic time the last time I visited Tarnovia (for that, CLICK ME!), but one thing I failed to mention…
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: 24 March 2024 / League: some unknown local division Final Score: N/A / Attendance: me Experience After a successful start to the day at Hutnik Krakow (for that, CLICK ME!), I decided against staging an early exit from…
Date: 24 March 2024 / League: Polish third tier Final Score: 1-1 / Attendance: 1,100 Experience Long recognised as a major tourist destination for international weekenders, it’s increasingly common to hear foreign voices at Wisla Krakow and Cracovia. But,…
Date: 14 January 2024 Experience Regarded as one of Poland’s most iconic examples of modernist architecture, Katowice’s Spodek Arena makes for an unlikely football venue. Generally known as ‘the UFO building’ given its likeness to a flying saucer, this…
Date: 18 November 2023 / League: Polish fifth tier Final Score: 2-3 / Attendance: approx. 999 Experience Polish football can be unforgiving. One day you’re King of the World, the next you’re cast to the gutter. Odra Wodzislaw Slaski…
Date: February 2024 / League: youth level Experience The last couple of days saw me working in Walbrzych, a city many in Poland associate with industrial blight, poverty, crime and other forms of social cancer. When the coal mines…
Date: 9 February 2024 / League: Polish top flight Final Score: 0-1 / Attendance: 37,223 Experience Look who’s back! That’s right, me. Now for the good news – it’s been donkey’s years since I’ve posted as I’ve been tied…
