The Podbrezova Sentinel
Match16 Nov 2026
Podbrezova sink to position 11
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Matúš Rusnák 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 Podbrezova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Filip Mielke 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Davit Hakobyan wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Podbrezova can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Filip Mielke 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Ivan Budachev is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Radek Šiler story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Radek Šiler signs something — a contract at Podbrezova or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
When it matters, Šimon Faško plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
A door opens for René Paraj
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
In brief
- The terraces The stands have heard the Balša Mrvaljević talk too
- Looking ahead Podbrezova host FK Senica
- Squad Šimon Faško is not doing himself any favours