Date: 1 April 2023 / League: Polish 3rd tier Final Score: 1-0 / Attendance: approx. 2,000 Experience The last decade has been bitterly cruel to Polonia fans – having dropped through the leagues, there were times when the club…
Date: 25 March 2023 / League: Polish 5th tier Final Score: 0-2 / Attendance: approx. 500 Experience To a large degree, I must admit I’m guilty of misrepresenting Polish football – the nation’s football scene is wild and often…
Date: 11 March 2023 / League: Polish 3rd division Final Score: 0-0 / Attendance: 4,195 Background Though set over a 100 kilometres apart, this fixture is considered a derby given the dearth of clubs found between the cities of…
Date: 27 February 2023 / League: Polish top flight Final Score: 2-1 / Attendance: 6,983 Overview Using sweeping generalisations, Zaglebie’s ground represents everything I dislike about modern football: plastic and utterly bereft of any personality, you’d usually find me…
Date: 26 February 2023 / League: Polish top flight Final Score: 2-1 / Attendance: 13,922 Overview With something approaching depressing familiarity, I always expect two things to happen on my visits to Slask – firstly, that the majority of…
Date: 24 February 2023 / League: Polish top flight Final Score: 2-2 / Attendance: 27,522 Overview There are big games in Poland, and then there’s Legia v Widzew. Amounting to one of the fiercest rivalries in the country, the…
Date: 17 February 2023 / League: Polish top flight Final Score: 1-0 / Attendance: 17,099 Overview NOTE: for the sake of ‘user experience’, the following passage is best read in the voice of Danny Fucking Dyer. I’ve done Widzew…
Date: 10 February 2023 / League: Polish top flight Final Score: 0-0 / Attendance: 9,423 Overview Should it require any explanation, then allow me to justify my recent digital exile – the winter break felt like it lasted forever.…
If football grounds had dating profiles, it’s not the pretty, plastic bimbos that I’d be swiping right for but rather the dirty, old slappers with a load of missing teeth – in short, places like the knackered former home…
