Marked for Kellyn Acosta
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Uneasy
Match25 Nov 2026
Pogon do the business in Europe
1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Pogon came through the finding-out well against Lugano.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Jakub Żewłakow, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.68
A mark of 7.68 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad30 Nov 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 Pogon know it.
Match28 Nov 2026
Pogon come up short against Lechia
Lechia left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Pogon
Mor Ndiaye 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paul Mukairu, and the manager let it.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Pogon
Something was said to Kellyn Acosta and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Lukas Willen 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Match4 Nov 2026
Pogon do the business in Europe
0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Pogon came through the finding-out well against Puskas Akademia.
Market9 Nov 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Pogon
Kellyn Acosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match8 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Pogon against Lech
2‑3 to Lech, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout9 Nov 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Paul Mukairu left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Paul Mukairu will call it something else in private.
Squad9 Nov 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Pogon are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Jagiellonia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pogon and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 11 matches say the rest.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
“I want to play”: Paul Mukairu speaks
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Player ratings
The afternoon belonged to Hussein Ali
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Upbeat
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Pogon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match31 Oct 2026
Ramil Mustafaev wins it after the whistle should have gone
90 minutes played. Ramil Mustafaev found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Gornik Zabrze went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad2 Nov 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Grzegorz Krychowiak and Pogon agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Pogon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Grzegorz Krychowiak was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match31 Oct 2026
Gornik Zabrze made Pogon work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Paul Mukairu
“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
“100 caps is more than I ever expected, and it is time somebody else had them.” At 36 he is finished with his country and nowhere near finished with Pogon.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A muscle injury and 18 days out for Kamil Grosicki
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Pogon will quote 18 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kacper Stanowski is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Pogon
Mor Ndiaye 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.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Kellyn Acosta knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Pogon, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Korona next, and one man in the Pogon dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market12 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Linus Wahlqvist signs something — a contract at Pogon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A wage question at Pogon
Benjamin Mendy has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
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Steady
Match30 Sep 2026
A European night to remember for Pogon
1‑0 against Dila, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Pogon
Attila Szalai 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kuba Bochniarz is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match3 Oct 2026
Jagiellonia left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
No place for Kellyn Acosta on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Pogon pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
18 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Lukas Willen 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Pogon
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Player ratings
Nobody on the pitch touched Filip Čuić
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The dugout
Attila Szalai gets picked when it counts
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.21, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Pogon can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad28 Sep 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 Pogon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
Pogon supporters have found a favourite in Filip Čuić
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Filip Čuić has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match26 Sep 2026
Piast made Pogon work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Léo Borges at his very best
Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Pogon.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Filip Čuić beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Steady
Match16 Sep 2026
A European lesson for Pogon
0‑1 against Lugano. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Pogon
Kellyn Acosta 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Valentin Cojocaru, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 2026
Wisla Krakow left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Krzysztof Kaminski left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
No place for Filip Čuić on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Pogon pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.80 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Wisla Krakow have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Paul Mukairu. The answer from Pogon has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kellyn Acosta and Pogon agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 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 Pogon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 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 Pogon know it.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Podbeskidzie made Pogon work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Kamil Grosicki stands down from international duty
“101 caps is more than I ever expected, and it is time somebody else had them.” At 38 he is finished with his country and nowhere near finished with Pogon.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.