The Viktoria Žižkov Chronicle
Squad22 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Viktoria Žižkov
Albert Labík 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.
The terraces22 Nov 2027
One of their own: Mikuláš Kubný
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Words at Viktoria Žižkov training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eliáš Piták 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Appearance number 100 for Albert Labík
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Match22 Nov 2027
The half-term report on Viktoria Žižkov
Position 9, 19 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Viktoria Žižkov count the cost of losing Daniel Provod
26 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Viktoria Žižkov pick somebody else ahead of Martin Berkovec
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 dugout22 Nov 2027
Eliáš Piták is still paying for one afternoon at Viktoria Žižkov
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.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Tomas Barak was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Viktoria Žižkov dressing room was either.
In brief
- The dugout Martin Berkovec knocks on the manager’s door
- Player ratings Jiří Hrubeš beats them one at a time
- Match Viktoria Žižkov draw a blank against Dukla Prague