Marked for Denis Valko
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match16 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Spartak Myjava
Position 12 and 2 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Miroslav Stoch 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivan Gulko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Ivan Duris, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
AS Trencin next, and one man in the Spartak Myjava dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match8 Nov 2026
14 matches without a win for Spartak Myjava
The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Spartak Myjava are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 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 Spartak Myjava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miroslav Stoch, and the manager let it.
Match8 Nov 2026
Podbrezova left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Patrik Suslov to a room that had heard them before.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Olexandr Voytyuk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Denis Valko, 19, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Spartak Myjava would like this to lead.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Robert Štefánek's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
13 matches without a win for Spartak Myjava
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Spartak Myjava are no longer polite ones.
Match31 Oct 2026
1‑4 against FK Senica, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Alex Húdok and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match31 Oct 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Spartak Myjava
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
The dugout2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Peter Guinari 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Spartak Myjava dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Patrik Suslov after 1‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
5 new faces, and Spartak Myjava are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Filip Blažek 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.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against MFK Skalica in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Filip Blažek knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at DAC Dunajska Streda, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. DAC Dunajska Streda know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Bálint Csóka has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Bálint Csóka has written the date down.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Next up on the road: MFK Skalica, position 8. The supporters who go will talk about it all week and the ones who do not will check their phones at ten to five.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gabriel Halabrín commits to Spartak Myjava for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Miroslav Stoch and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match1 Aug 2026
FK Senica left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Spartak Myjava asked and MFK Skalica said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ivan Gulko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad3 Aug 2026
No place for Jiří Bederka in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Spartak Myjava are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Patrik Suslov left the room before anybody could ask which.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Peter Guinari is in the works
Spartak Myjava have made the call to MFK Skalica. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.