On Wednesday evening a major international football event, the Europa League final, returns to Poland, nearly three years after Euro 2012 visited these shores. Much has changed in the intervening three years, especially in Poland’s neighbouring co-hosts Ukraine after the Maidan revolution and subsequent annexation of Crimea by Russia, and the ongoing conflict in the […]
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In the first part of his Euro 2012 memories series, English writer and Warsaw resident David Ingham takes a look back at his best moment and how it all started Oh Kuba, is it really two years since that glorious summer? That was a great time for us both wasn’t it? You became a national […]
Leopold Tyrmand (centre) enjoying time with Jazz musicians in the late 1950s ‘Is there a conflict between me and the rulers of this country? Yes there is. A difference of opinions. I think differently. We differ in our views on the constitution and architecture, on industry and sport, on personal freedoms and education.’ Leopold Tyrmand, […]
Poland’s ultra-modern National Stadium during Euro2012. The stadium will host next weekend’s Polish Cup final In a new guest post on Rightbankwarsaw we welcome Michał Rygiel to preview next weekend’s Polish cup final between Zagłębie Lubin and Zawisza Bydgoszcz. The final will be played for the first time at the National Stadium in Warsaw. Unfortunately what […]
Taking advantage of my luxuriously long Christmas and New Year break and eager to test out my new camera I decided to visit some more Warsaw stadiums. As followers of the blog know, there are a host of different club stadiums in Warsaw and its environs, in different states of decay. Perhaps the most spectacular […]
After a long hiatus in groundhopping for a variety of reasons I got down to it again today as a friend and I took in the delights of third tier football in the small town of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, 30 kilometres to the North-West of Warsaw. What prompted me to travel to such a game? […]
So the big day had arrived. Finally, as other commentators have noted , Polonia and its fans had the chance to focus purely on football after the trials and tribulations of the summer and the fan violence of last weekend. Polonia were back once more at their Konwiktorska stadium, something that is possible due to […]
On the weekend the new Polonia played their first match of the new season at KS Łomianki. Unfortunately Saturday’s events had little to do with football as the game was abandoned after 35 minutes due to the scandalous behaviour of KS Łomianki and Legia fans. Hooligans repeatedly unveiled an offensive banner, threw apple cores at […]
It’s been a long and, at times, rather confusing summer for Polonia Warsaw. However the wait for the new season to start is almost over: on Saturday the former Ekstraklasa club will play its first IV liga (5th tier) game at KS Łomianki. The Polish media have already warned of possible security problems between travelling […]
Polonia Warsaw’s fall from grace is a sad one for anyone involved with the club. These last couple of weeks have been about absence. 10 days ago the new Ekstraklasa season got under way without the Czarne koszule, the draw for the Polish cup included the old, bankrupted Polonia who won’t play in the competition. […]
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