Date: 3 September 2023 / League: Polish 2nd tier Final Score: 1-1 / Attendance: 8,573 Experience One of the things I love about this rather demented football obsession is the places it takes you to – Bielsko-Biala, for instance,…
Date: 2 September 2023 / League: Polish 2nd tier Final Score: 3-0 / Attendance: 13,504 Experience As if I didn’t know already, last weekend underlined just how pointless it is to plan ahead in Poland. Having already booked train…
Date: 12 August 2023 / League: Polish 5th tier Final Score: 2-0 / Attendance: approx. 100 Experience I like football grounds that look as if they pre-date the time of dinosaurs, so when I visited Chemik in April (for…
Date: 27 August 2023 / League: Polish 5th tier Final Score: 2-1 / Attendance: approx. 800 Experience For me, the heart of Polish football beats the loudest not in the top tier stadiums, but in tertiary towns like Slupsk…
Date: 19 August 2023 / League: who knows – seventh tier? Final Score: 1-0 / Attendance: approx. 100 Experience You can blame it on the fixture list, the holiday season or, even, the utter bastard of a heatwave that’s…
Date: 12 August 2023 / League: Polish 4th tier Final Score: 0-0 / Attendance: 3,290 Experience When the fixture list was first released, I think the reaction was a collective sigh of disappointment – certainly among my friends, anyhow.…
Date: 29 July 2023 / League: Polish 2nd tier Final Score: 3-0 / Attendance: 1,696 approx. Experience Polish football – at least the higher divisions – returned to action a couple of weeks back and, more importantly, so did…
Date: 17 June 2023 / League: Polish 5th tier Final Score: 0-2 / Attendance: 1,000 approx. Experience Radomsko had been beeping on my ‘to do’ list for years, but despite being just a two-hour journey from Warsaw, whenever I’d…
Date: 8 July 2023 / League: pre-season friendly Final Score: 1-1 / Attendance: 350 Experience I don’t need all that much hindsight to call out 22/23 as being an absolute classic of a season. Even so, when it finished…
