Date: 1 September 2019 / League: Polish top flight Final Score: 1-2 / Attendance: 25,768 In A Nutshell A fiery affair inside one of Poland’s finest modern grounds… Stadium I’m happy to bash Poland’s contemporary stadiums, and by in…
Date: 30 August 2019 / League: Polish fifth tier Final score: 3-1 / Attendance: 250 (a guess) Preamble None to offer you! The big problem with writing these entries a couple of years down the line is that the…
Date: 22 August 2019 / League: Europa League Play-off Score: 0-0 / Attendance: 28,000 In A Nutshell Two notoriously loyal sets of fans facing off in the first-leg of a European match – it sounded delicious, and so it…
Date: 2019 / League: regional leagues (equivalent of 7th tier) Final Score: unknown / Attendance: approx. 150 In A Nutshell Marketing themselves as Poland’s ‘first democratic football club’, Zly have become a phenomenon, a point not lost on UEFA…
Granat Skarzysko-Kamienna v KSZO 1929 Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski Date: 16 June 2019 / League: Provincial Cup Final (Swietokrzyski province) Final Score: 1-3 / Attendance: 2,000 In A Nutshell A naked Russian, an escaped parrot and a provincial cup final played…
Date: 15 June 2019/ League: Polish seventh tier Final Score: 1-0 / Attendance: 100-150 In A Nutshell On a sweltering hot morning, Olimpia clinch a playoff spot in front of a raucous bumper crowd inside their scuffed-looking home. Getting…
Date: 13 June 2019 / League: Lubelski Regional Cup Final Final Score: 2-3 / Attendance: 999 Preamble A district cup final contested between two local rivals inside a tumbledown ruin. Background Poland has a law classifying anything with an…
Date: 8 June 2019 / League: fifth tier (or possibly sixth!) Final Score: 2-0 / Attendance: 500 (at a guess) In A Nutshell On a steaming summer’s day, two old foes meet head-on in Poland’s deep south… Getting There…
Date: 1 June 2019 / League: Polish fifth tier Final Score: 3-2 / Attendance: approx. 150 (and a geezer in a bush) In A Nutshell Hemmed in by woodland, and in some parts completely conquered by it, this idyllic…
