The FK Senica Chronicle
Match28 Jul 2029
The wait goes on for FK Senica
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Tempers go at FK Senica
Artur Bogusz 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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Kristian Sestak is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Marek Pekarik 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.
Match28 Jul 2029
A bad afternoon for FK Senica against MSK Zilina
0‑2 to MSK Zilina, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad30 Jul 2029
No hiding place for Milan Hamsik
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Milan Hamsik, and the manager let it.
Market30 Jul 2029
Zlate Moravce are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. FK Senica will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Player ratings30 Jul 2029
Lukas Brabec runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market30 Jul 2029
FK Senica and Kristian Sestak are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Makar Chesnokov in it
- Market Peter Kucka leaves for nothing
- Boardroom The FK Senica production line keeps running