Marked for Robert Pekarik
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match21 Aug 2027
27 matches without a win for Spartak Myjava
The run now stands at 27, and the questions being asked around Spartak Myjava are no longer polite ones.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Jaime Carreño out for 84 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Spartak Myjava will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match21 Aug 2027
0‑0 against AS Trencin, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Brian Babit 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Spartak Myjava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Peter Pokorný 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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market23 Aug 2027
No place for Loïc Masscho in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Loïc Masscho has his answer from Spartak Myjava; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Spartak Myjava had a different afternoon.
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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match29 Aug 2026
6 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jaime Carreño 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Miroslav Stoch 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.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. MFK Skalica will be the happier side with the point.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The shop window has Marko Kunka in it
Spartak Myjava have let the market know Marko Kunka can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market31 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Spartak Myjava, another week without a signature from Tomas Hubocan.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Endy Opoku Bernadina 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Spartak Myjava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jaime Carreño 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Match15 Aug 2026
AS Trencin left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Samuel Flamik
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Marko Kunka dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Market17 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Robert Pekarik has his answer from Spartak Myjava; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Jaime Carreño is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.