Marked for Marcin Moder
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match25 Jun 2029
Every point is an argument now for Podbeskidzie
Position 15 and 5 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.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Grzegorz Grosicki damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad25 Jun 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbeskidzie this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Words at Podbeskidzie training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kamil Jóźwiak 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.
Squad25 Jun 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Maksymilian Świta commits to Podbeskidzie for another 4 years.
Market25 Jun 2029
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Tomasz Wójtowicz leaves Podbeskidzie the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces11 Jun 2029
Anger at Podbeskidzie spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market11 Jun 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Podbeskidzie can pretend not to have heard.
Market11 Jun 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Podbeskidzie is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad11 Jun 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Podbeskidzie this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Kornel Osyra 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.
Market11 Jun 2029
Sibenik are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Podbeskidzie will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market4 Jun 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Podbeskidzie can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom4 Jun 2029
The scrutiny sharpens at Podbeskidzie
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Podbeskidzie is running low.
Squad4 Jun 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcin Biernat commits to Podbeskidzie for another 2 years.
Squad4 Jun 2029
Welinton Júnior 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.
Squad4 Jun 2029
Kamil Jóźwiak 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.
Market4 Jun 2029
The phone has started ringing about Marcin Moder again, and this time the name on the line is Sibenik. Podbeskidzie are listening politely and promising nothing.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad19 Jun 2028
Nahuel Correa damages knee ligaments — 72 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 72 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Welinton Júnior 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Kamil Jóźwiak 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.