The Polish media and fans are up in arms about the lack of success of Polish clubs in European competitions – if Legia Warsaw fail to beat Glasgow Rangers on Thursday in the Europa League play-off round second leg, it will be the 3rd year in a row that Polish sides have not made the […]
If you follow me on social media you’ll have noticed that there have been some big changes in the world of RightBankWarsaw. I don’t like the term ‘brand’ but in today’s world freshening up your brand is one way to stand out in the midst of thousands of different things that take up our attention […]
Piast Gliwice defend a corner at Lechia Gdańsk Photo: Tomek R It’s been a topsy-turvy season in the Ekstraklasa, but this is no surprise in one of the most unpredictable of Europe’s top tiers, with the only predictable thing being that Legia Warsaw could very well creep across the line while not really impressing. All […]
Photo: Wikicommons Poland’s first two Euro 2020 qualifiers are behind us. Poland got away with two wins, first beating Austria 1-0 in Vienna and then defeating Latvia 2-0 in Warsaw. What have we learnt from the two games? 1) Poland’s individual strengths should be easily good enough to get them out of the group In […]
The Ekstraklasa, quite rightly, gets a lot of criticism for the quality of the matches, the fact that its clubs don’t succeed in European competitions and so on. Despite this I love the league, it’s mine now and I will defend it to the hilt. In this spirit I’ve decided to write a series of […]
Jagiellonia Białystok’s Taras Romanczuk Photo: Adam Kupryjaniuk, jbc The Second World War is never far away in Poland. Last week scandals linked to the war erupted during the Middle East Summit in Warsaw. The NBC anchor Andrea Mitchell said that the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was against the Polish and Nazi Regime (when it was […]
‘Paweł Adamowicz, Lechia thanks you!’ Blog and podcast regular Maciej Słomiński remembers the recently murdered Gdańsk Mayor Paweł Adamowicz and all he did for his club Lechia Gdańsk. I will put it straight: if it wasn’t for the murdered Mayor Paweł Adamowicz Euro 2012 wouldn’t be played in Gdańsk at the prettiest venue in Poland […]
