It’s been an incredibly bleak couple couple of years for Polish sides in European competitions. Legia Warsaw, way back in 2016-2017, were the last side to represent the country in a European group stage when they entertained (but were walloped a number of times) in the Champions League playing against Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and […]
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The Polish media and fans are up in arms about the lack of success of Polish clubs in European competitions – if Legia Warsaw fail to beat Glasgow Rangers on Thursday in the Europa League play-off round second leg, it will be the 3rd year in a row that Polish sides have not made the […]
If you follow me on social media you’ll have noticed that there have been some big changes in the world of RightBankWarsaw. I don’t like the term ‘brand’ but in today’s world freshening up your brand is one way to stand out in the midst of thousands of different things that take up our attention […]
Piast Gliwice defend a corner at Lechia Gdańsk Photo: Tomek R It’s been a topsy-turvy season in the Ekstraklasa, but this is no surprise in one of the most unpredictable of Europe’s top tiers, with the only predictable thing being that Legia Warsaw could very well creep across the line while not really impressing. All […]
Photo: Wikicommons Poland’s first two Euro 2020 qualifiers are behind us. Poland got away with two wins, first beating Austria 1-0 in Vienna and then defeating Latvia 2-0 in Warsaw. What have we learnt from the two games? 1) Poland’s individual strengths should be easily good enough to get them out of the group In […]
The Ekstraklasa, quite rightly, gets a lot of criticism for the quality of the matches, the fact that its clubs don’t succeed in European competitions and so on. Despite this I love the league, it’s mine now and I will defend it to the hilt. In this spirit I’ve decided to write a series of […]
Jagiellonia Białystok’s Taras Romanczuk Photo: Adam Kupryjaniuk, jbc The Second World War is never far away in Poland. Last week scandals linked to the war erupted during the Middle East Summit in Warsaw. The NBC anchor Andrea Mitchell said that the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was against the Polish and Nazi Regime (when it was […]
‘Paweł Adamowicz, Lechia thanks you!’ Blog and podcast regular Maciej Słomiński remembers the recently murdered Gdańsk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz and all he did for his club Lechia Gdańsk. I will put it straight: if it wasn’t for the murdered Mayor Paweł Adamowicz Euro 2012 wouldn’t be played in Gdańsk at the prettiest venue in Poland […]
Krzysztof Piątek has started like a house on fire in Genoa. As I write this piece he’s got an unbelievable 13 goals in 8 competitive games in Italy, 13 GOALS IN 8 COMPETITIVE GAMES, it’s so good it needs to be repeated again and again and again. People all over Poland are splashing water on […]
Flagellants, 1493, source: Wikicommons I’ve been following the Polish league for 6 full years now, writing articles about it, watching the matches, following social media regarding it and generally getting involved in its welfare. And, although I will continue to follow it, attempt to promote it and enjoy the matches I’ve hit a bit of […]
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