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…
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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…
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…
