Date: 30 September 2017 / League: Polish third tier Final Score: 0-0 / Attendance: 1,000 (official number released) In A Nutshell A minnow and a giant grind out a draw in a top of the table clash marked by…
Date: 1 April 2017 / League: Polish tier 4Final Score: 2-0 / Attendance: 3,050 Preamble For me, this is where it all really began – my love affair with Polish football started here at this very match! Why? See:…
Wawel Wirek’s away end is the size and style of a wendy house – and flanked as it is by a decorative Christmas tree that stands there in all seasons, you can’t help but wonder if it serves as…
To call this ground a stadium is a bit of a madness – it offers one low bank of seating running down one side of the pitch and, then, well… that’s your lot. But despite this quite unpromising description,…
There’s just one side to speak of at Slavia Ruda Slaska, and that’s a decaying concrete bank hewn into a natural slope that vanishes into the forest; crowning it sits a half-destroyed press cabin that wobbles so much you…
As a stadium nerd, this is precisely the kind of place that I love to uncover. Entered under a sign written in a groovy 70s-style script, the ground presents a motherlode of curiosities, inconsistencies, contrasts and treasures – all…
Away ends do not come any worse than that found at Slavia Ruda Slaska – accessed up a densely overgrown path, visitors will eventually find themselves on a disintegrating terrace littered with felled tree branches, rocks and accumulated debris.…
More’s the pity, on the day I visited the visiting team’s fans had been banned from travelling, therefore meaning that the away stand had been generously given over to some local blokes eating sandwiches. But what an enclosure this…
A ruin wrapped inside woodland would be the best way to describe this horseshoe-shaped stadium, and it’s particularly striking when carpeted in the auburn colours of autumn. Stepping over jagged piles of stone, it’s a magical trip back in…
