Marked for Stjepan Davidović
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Uneasy
Match10 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Korona
The unbeaten run reaches 13. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Mariusz Stępiński takes the afternoon — 8.33
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mariusz Stępiński provided it, and the 8.33 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Pau Resta keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Korona may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match10 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Korona's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Korona has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad12 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Stjepan Davidović and Korona agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match10 Oct 2026
Korona share the spoils with Lech
A 2‑2 draw with Lech leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Upbeat
Match17 Sep 2026
Korona do the business in Europe
2‑2. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Korona came through the finding-out well against HNK Gorica.
Match19 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Korona
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Rafał Mamla: 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.
Squad21 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Simon Gustafson, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.36, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Vladimir Nikolov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.18. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The team sheet said everything about Antoñín
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Antoñín.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Gornik Zabrze leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Triumph
Market7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Korona make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Korona have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Viktor Popov 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Wiktor Długosz’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Korona.
Match5 Sep 2026
Korona keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dawid Błanik 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.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Mariusz Stępiński obliged against Pogon. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Korona.
Market24 Aug 2026
Piotr Rogala hands in a written request
“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.
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Bartłomiej Smolarczyk has left for Legia in a $560.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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
Ninety minutes of Mariusz Stępiński at his very best
Marked 8.23. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Korona.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
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Upbeat
Market17 Aug 2026
Korona say no — this time
The offer from Lech for Dawid Błanik 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.
Squad17 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Jagiellonia pay $680.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Wiktor Długosz
“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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.36 — 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
It needed Mariusz Stępiński to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Legia, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 5.62, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.