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…
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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…
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: 12 November 2023 / League: Polish second tier Final Score: 1-0 / Attendance: 3,835 Experience I’ve been down to GKS Katowice a few times over the last few years, but not since 2019 have I swagged accreditation 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: 15 October 2023 / League: Polish seventh tier (possibly!) Final Score: 5-2 / Attendance: approx. 100 Experience I’ve got a couple of bangers that are queueing patiently to be posted, not least a wild derby shot the day…
Date: 30 September 2023 / League: Polish second tier Final Score: 2-1 / Attendance: 6,281 Experience Does the name Rzeszow sound familiar? Well, it should do. Becoming the principal gateway for Western aid destined for Ukraine, last year saw…
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…