Marked for David Rodríguez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tamar Svetlin
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Korona lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match18 Nov 2026
Korona bow out of the cup
Legia go through and Korona go home, 1‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match21 Nov 2026
Cruel end for Ruch as Korona pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Korona scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Up for the corner, and Martin Remacle delivers — 7.62
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Martin Remacle scored, was marked 7.62, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Match21 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Korona
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Korona
Simon Gustafson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Korona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wiktor Długosz is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match21 Nov 2026
The run at home goes on for Korona
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match21 Nov 2026
Three points for Korona, 1‑0 the final word against Ruch in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Carlos Philipe out for 27 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Korona will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Korona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Korona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wiktor Długosz is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match24 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Korona
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Korona can tell you which week it ends in.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of David Rodríguez
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Korona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Korona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tamar Svetlin is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of David Rodríguez
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Marcel Pięczek dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match26 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Korona?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Zaglebie? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 45. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market31 Aug 2026
Jagiellonia come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Korona did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Korona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Korona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tamar Svetlin is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Maxime Spano
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match29 Aug 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Wisla Krakow came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market31 Aug 2026
Pau Resta placed on the list
Korona have made Pau Resta available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2026
Korona through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Pogon, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cruel end for Pogon as Korona pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Korona scored in the 111th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Stjepan Davidović at 21 — 7.83
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Stjepan Davidović did not need any: 7.83, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Korona can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
Korona say no — this time
The offer from Jagiellonia for Slobodan Rubežić was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Korona
Mariusz Stępiński was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Wiktor Długosz falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Pau Resta gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.