Marked for Dawid Barnowski
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match14 Oct 2026
Legia ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match17 Oct 2026
8 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Paweł Kieszek: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Squad19 Oct 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 Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kacper Łoś 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.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Twelve yards and the whole ground holding its breath, and it did not go in. He will put his name down for the next one, which is the only thing to do.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match17 Oct 2026
It needed Samuel Kováčik to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Pogoń Siedlce, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Steady
Match19 Sep 2026
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki are no longer polite ones.
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 Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Mateusz Szczepaniak 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.
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A point taken on 88 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Match19 Sep 2026
It needed Olivier Siniawski to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Polonia Bytom, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout21 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.
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
1 for Karol Noiszewski, marked 7.49, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Hubert Adamczyk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateusz Szczepaniak was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets31 Aug 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
The goal that put Stal Mielec ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki equalised, 2 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
The dugout31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
It needed Karol Noiszewski to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Stal Mielec, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad31 Aug 2026
No place for Samuel Kováčik in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Damian Jaroń dropped after a run of poor form
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The dugout
Matheus Dias has become a man the manager trusts
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match22 Aug 2026
A 0‑2 win over Polonia Warszawa, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad24 Aug 2026
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market24 Aug 2026
Jan Krupa puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 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 Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kacper Łoś was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 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 terraces24 Aug 2026
He is 17 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oliwier Olewiński, and the manager let it.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Paweł Kieszek gets picked when it counts
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Player ratings
Nobody could get near Dawid Barnowski
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Hubert Adamczyk 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kacper Łoś 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 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 terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 19 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Slask, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market17 Aug 2026
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Adam Piatek could afford to be generous.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
Hubert Adamczyk 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Kacper Łoś 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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paweł Kieszek, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki, another week without a signature from Paweł Kieszek.
The dugout3 Aug 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 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Adam Piatek to a room that had heard them before.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Miedź Legnica: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.