Marked for Simon Gustafson
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match1 Oct 2026
Korona do the business in Europe
2‑2. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Korona came through the finding-out well against Dila.
Match5 Oct 2026
Korona are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 19 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match3 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Korona
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match3 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Korona
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Korona are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Xavier Dziekoński is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Korona
Mariusz Stępiński 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
A defender's afternoon for Pau Resta
Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Xavier Dziekoński 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.44 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Back issues
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Steady
Match26 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Korona do not lose
10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Korona
Simon Gustafson 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.48 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match26 Sep 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Tamar Svetlin had Korona level again within 1 minutes, and Zaglebie never got to play with a lead at all.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Tamar Svetlin
5 goals and a season average of 7.23 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
It needed Tamar Svetlin to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Zaglebie, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Upbeat
Match17 Sep 2026
Korona do the business in Europe
2‑2. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Korona came through the finding-out well against HNK Gorica.
Match19 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Korona
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Rafał Mamla: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Korona have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 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 Korona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Simon Gustafson, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.36, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Vladimir Nikolov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.18. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The team sheet said everything about Antoñín
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Antoñín.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Gornik Zabrze leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Triumph
Match12 Sep 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Tamar Svetlin scored in the 89th minute, Jagiellonia had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Korona took the lot.
Match12 Sep 2026
Korona make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Korona have 4 straight wins of it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.41, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Korona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wiktor Długosz 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Antoñín
“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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Tamar Svetlin. 1‑0 against Jagiellonia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad14 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 Korona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Triumph
Market10 Aug 2026
Korona say no — this time
The offer from Lechia for Patrik Hellebrand was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Patrik Hellebrand and Korona agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Korona
Simon Gustafson 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Wojciech Kamiński has left for Piast in a $370.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Match8 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Mariusz Stępiński’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Korona.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Tamar Svetlin was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.65. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Remacle, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Korona pick somebody else ahead of Antoñín
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.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Simon Gustafson and Korona 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 Korona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.39 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Wiktor Długosz 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mariusz Stępiński, and the manager let it.
Match1 Aug 2026
Three points for Korona, 1‑0 the final word against Gornik Leczna in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Market3 Aug 2026
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
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.