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…
When it was opened in 1968, this stadium held 30,000, a fitting home for a team that at the time was playing in the top league – and games in the European Cup were swiftly to follow. The years…
Szombierki is something of a special ground and that much is emphasized by a bizarre away end – seen as a shallow, oblong strip of fenced concrete, find this plopped at random onto a vast, grassy bank. To see…
Behold, one of Webber’s great discoveries! I could talk all day long about the little away cage snuck into the corner, the abandoned terrace running down the side and antique ticket kiosk that marks the entrance of the ground.…
In my eyes, a good ground demands a special away end – and Kmita have just that. Slotted diagonally in the corner of the ground, this temporary-looking structure is made all the more special for the way in which…
