Marked for Jan Kovařík
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
The knee: Vojtěch Smrž out for 29 days
29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bohemians 1905 lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match21 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Bohemians 1905's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bohemians 1905 has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Aleš Čermák in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bohemians 1905 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Lukáš Penxa gets it from the manager
“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.
Match21 Nov 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Filip Darida was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Bohemians 1905 dressing room was either.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jan Zíka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Jan Vondra 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Crisis
Match28 Oct 2026
Slovan Liberec ended it 2‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Jan Zíka, 20, steals the show — 7.61
Marked 7.61 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Bohemians 1905's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bohemians 1905 has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Patrik Žitný beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad2 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 Bohemians 1905 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match31 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Jan Kovařík did the work nobody counts — 6.70
11 combined actions and 6.70. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of David Lischka
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
8 new faces, and Bohemians 1905 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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Steady
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Vyacheslav Karavaev 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Benson Sakala commits to Bohemians 1905 for another 3 years.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Both jobs done by Robert Hrubý — 6.71
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 13 actions, 6.71, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Bohemians 1905 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benson Sakala 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Bohemians 1905 know it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Bohemians 1905 told Vyacheslav Karavaev something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladimír Zeman, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Filip Darida after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
The knee: Petr Mirvald out for 22 days
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bohemians 1905 lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Aleš Čermák 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Benson Sakala was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match3 Oct 2026
Level with 92 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Bohemians 1905 had all but put away. Slavia Prague will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Squad5 Oct 2026
14 new faces, and Bohemians 1905 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
It needed Robert Hrubý to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Slavia Prague, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomáš Frühwald, and the manager let it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Filip Darida after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
The knee: Petr Mirvald out for 39 days
39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bohemians 1905 lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Aleš Čermák and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Sparta Prague. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Bohemians 1905 will try again when the window opens; Ústí nad Labem may not be selling by then.
The dugout21 Sep 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Aleš Čermák
7.66, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Bohemians 1905 had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Filip Darida kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jan Zíka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Bohemians 1905's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bohemians 1905 has to find a result from somewhere.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Everything agreed with Ústí nad Labem, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad14 Sep 2026
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match12 Sep 2026
1‑2 to Viktoria Plzen, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Benson Sakala was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Sep 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Yusuf had Bohemians 1905 level again within 4 minutes, and Viktoria Plzen never got to play with a lead at all.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Patrik Žitný in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bohemians 1905 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Sep 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 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Filip Darida to a room that had heard them before.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 seasons and 375 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yusuf and Bohemians 1905 agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Aleš Čermák 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Bucharest have kept their man, and Bohemians 1905 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match1 Aug 2026
Three points for Bohemians 1905, 2‑0 the final word against Teplice in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Benson Sakala was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.59 on the card, and the Bohemians 1905 support went home talking about one name.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Dynamo Kyiv: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.