Marked for Kacper Kasza
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
The afternoon belonged to Ondřej Lingr
A mark of 7.68, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Bartosz Karliński 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Korona
Kacper Kasza 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Marcel Pięczek named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Marcel Pięczek is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Karol Bednarek after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Dawid Błanik 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Korona will feel it on Saturday.
Match31 Oct 2026
Korona and Lech cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Lech came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Back issues
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Steady
Match26 Oct 2026
Korona are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 23 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Korona
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ondřej Lingr was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match24 Oct 2026
1‑3 to Wisła Płock, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Kacper Kasza in a row with a teammate
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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Nono 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.
The dugout26 Oct 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Korona
Something was said to Wiktor Szywacz and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Market26 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Simon Gustafson signs something — a contract at Korona or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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The dugout12 Oct 2026
Maciej Kikolski: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Korona have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Korona
Xavier Dziekoński and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kacper Kasza is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Slobodan Rubežić commits to Korona for another 4 years.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Korona
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bartosz Karliński was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Ondřej Lingr story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ondřej Lingr signs something — a contract at Korona or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Dawid Błanik knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dawid Błanik trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Widzew Łódź next, and one man in the Korona dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Antoñín and Korona agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad14 Sep 2026
100 for the club now, each one filed in somebody’s memory with a date and a scoreline. Numbers like this are what supporters argue about in twenty years.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Korona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ondřej Lingr 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Korona get the job done against Lechia
A 3‑1 win over Lechia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Antoñín
“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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Ondřej Lingr at his very best
Marked 8.30. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Korona.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
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Squad
Words exchanged at Korona
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Player ratings
Antoñín beats them one at a time
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 10 in, 11 out at Korona
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 10 arrived, 11 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Korona
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ondřej Lingr was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Korona
Kacper Kasza 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Nono
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Antoñín asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market7 Sep 2026
The name of Ondřej Lingr keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Korona say nothing, which says plenty.