From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match26 Oct 2026
Ruch are in real trouble now
Position 15, 2 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market26 Oct 2026
Denis Ventúra hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ruch can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 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 Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Ruch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sebastian Musiolik was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 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.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Wisla Krakow in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ruch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Patryk Sikora has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Ruch will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
13 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 54 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Ruch
Ali Gholizadeh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
Sebastian Musiolik scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Legia, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateusz Szwoch 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
The manager makes an example of Mateusz Szwoch
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and Ruch 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Ruch
12 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Marko Kolar takes the afternoon — 8.91
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marko Kolar provided it, and the 8.91 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Maciej Pietrzyk: 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.” Ruch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Ruch
Ali Gholizadeh 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
2‑3 to Gornik Zabrze, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Ruch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateusz Szwoch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Jakub Bielecki
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Player ratings
Ali Gholizadeh beats them one at a time
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
69 days out for Filip Szymanski after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ruch will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Ali Gholizadeh 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
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastian Musiolik 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Gornik Leczna, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 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 Ruch know it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Denis Ventúra
“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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
104% of the income goes out in wages at Ruch
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Jakub Bielecki dropped after a run of poor form
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Player ratings
Ali Gholizadeh runs at them all day
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Ruch
10 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.
Match28 Sep 2026
Every point is an argument now for Ruch
Position 15 and 2 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad28 Sep 2026
8 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.
Market28 Sep 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Up for the corner, and Patryk Sikora delivers — 7.18
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Patryk Sikora scored, was marked 7.18, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
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 Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateusz Szwoch 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Ruch against Cracovia
1‑2 to Cracovia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Jakub Bielecki
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The dugout
Szymon Szymański is still being punished for one mistake
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
83 days out for Filip Szymanski after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ruch will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Ruch's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ruch has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Ruch
Martin Konczkowski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Szczepan 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 dugout21 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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Rafal Piszczek to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 90 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Ruch
Mateusz Szwoch 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastian Musiolik 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dawid Glik has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Marko Kolar at his very best
Marked 8.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ruch.
The dugout14 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Jakub Bielecki
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
In brief
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Match
Honours even between Ruch and Lechia
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Squad
No place for Ali Gholizadeh in the new shape
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Ruch, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Ruch close the window on a squad of their own making
16 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ruch have done the hard part with Lech, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Martin Konczkowski 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Ruch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateusz Szwoch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ruch are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
There were 15 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ruch can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Daniel Szczepan takes the afternoon — 8.71
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Daniel Szczepan provided it, and the 8.71 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Ruch
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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sochi keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kacper Dyduch and Ruch agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad31 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 Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ruch come up short against Lech
Lech left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateusz Szwoch 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.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Ruch
0‑6 against Cracovia, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market24 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
A cup hiding at Cracovia leaves Ruch explaining themselves
0-6, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Ruch's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ruch has to find a result from somewhere.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ruch have done the hard part with Sochi, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No thanks: Laszlo Orban rejects the move
Ruch had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Haladas, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ruch cannot find the net
4 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Ruch
Martin Konczkowski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Ruch
Martin Konczkowski 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Ruch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateusz Szwoch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Ruch asked and Piast said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match15 Aug 2026
Zaglebie left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Rafal Piszczek after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Sochi have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Haladas: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Crisis
Squad10 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 Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Ruch asked and Gornik Zabrze said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ruch come up short against Korona
Korona left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Robert Piszczek has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Karol Piszczek has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Grzegorz Piatek is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Maciej Piszczek has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Ruch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Szczepan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout10 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 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Rafal Piszczek to a room that had heard them before.
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Crisis
Match1 Aug 2026
Ruch taken apart
1‑4 to Jagiellonia, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Michał Chrapek and Ruch agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Martin Konczkowski 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Ruch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michał Chrapek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brentford have kept their man, and Ruch go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout3 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.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Ruch dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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 Ruch, another week without a signature from Michał Chrapek.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Szymon Szymański’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
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Squad
8 new faces, and Ruch are still learning each other
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Luca Meirelles is in the works