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The pod is back for a special retro series of pods during the corona virus pandemic. First up Maciej and I take on the dark but colourful period of match-fixing in Polish football when anything was possible if you knew how to go about it. We talk about the title decider of the 1981-1982 season, the famous 1992-1993 denouement of the Polish league, the hair-dresser who built a match-fixing empire from the mid-1990s and how Poland cleaned up its act. The smell of vodka, kiełbasa and oorruption...

The pod is back after a month's break as Maciej, Tomek and I cover all the latest news in the Polish Ekstraklasa, Poland's European failures (yet again) and make a half-hearted attempt to talk about the national team. Along the way we find out that Tomek watched Śląsk Wrocław's pre-season friendlies, how Legia Warsaw were big meanies in not letting Piast Gliwice sign Tomasz Jodłowiec earlier and how John Paul II bears a canny resemblance to Phil Collins. We also discussed the timeless genius...

The 2019-2020 season in Poland is already two weeks in and Thomas Pitura and I cover the first couple of weeks of the Ekstraklasa season, the transfer moves of Ekstraklasa clubs, how Polish teams have been doing in European competition qualifiers and discuss some of the new rules introduced this season - i.e. 3 teams going down instead of 2 and the obligatory youth player rule. Along the way we discovered that I'd never travelled by car between Częstochowa and Bełchatów (imagine that!), Joel...

In the second part of our Ekstraklasa season review pod, Tomek, Maciej and I talked about our experiences of the Polish Cup final (including being covered by too many tifos), and put together our best XI and silly (WWOPF) XI of the season. Enjoy!

In the first part of our Ekstraklasa season review pod, Maciej, Tomek and I look at our funny moments of the last gameweek and the season as a whole, and round-up the top and bottom halves of the table, including Piast Gliwice's unexpected title success, why Legia Warsaw failed and whether the right teams were relegated or not. Part two soon...

In a special edition of the pod, I talked to Piast Gliwice's Tom Hateley about his career including: what it's like to have a famous football dad, his time at Reading FC (with some Gylfi Sigurdsson love), playing for Śląsk Wrocław and Piast's unexpected title challenge this season. We also talked about Piast's positive and charismatic Spanish player Gerard Badia and Tom gave his opinion about the standard of the Polish league. Enjoy!

The pod returns after a month's hiatus to look at the Polish Ekstraklasa as it divides into championship and relegation parts of the table for the remaining 7 gameweeks of the season. There weren't any real shocks in terms of who made the top 8 but we looked at a very good gameweek which had lots of goals, look forward to the rest of the season and discuss the Polish cup semis and the final which takes place at the beginning of May. Along the way we discussed whether we love or hate marmite,...

The pod is back after a one month hiatus to talk about the goings on in the Ekstraklasa, the Polish Cup and look forward to Poland's Euro 2020 qualifiers. Along the way we talk about feisty Romanian women, rotund Finnish maestros and lots of other miscellaneous stuff. Enjoy!

The pod is back with new guest Thomas Pitura to talk about the return of the Ekstraklasa after the over 7 week winter break. We round up the Wisła Kraków story (including the return of Kuba Błaszczykowski), talk about the massive influx of transfers to Ekstraklasa clubs during the break and discuss the first matches of the spring round. Enjoy!

The pod is back to look at the incredible goings on at Wisła Kraków and sum up the autumn round of the Ekstraklasa. Wisła Kraków have been 'allegedly' run by gangsters over the last couple of years and is in seriously financial trouble, in the midst of this foreign con artists tried to buy the club, leading to absurd scenes. From the sad to the ridiculous we look at the saga that has gripped Poland. We also look at the situation in the Ekstraklasa before the winter break and do our teams of...

Maciej and I are back to talk about the current goings on in the Polish Ekstraklasa

The pod returns for our semi-regular dose of Ekstraklasa and Polish football chat. This week Piotr Żelazny (real proper journalist ®) makes his first appearance on the pod. We looked at the situation at Lech Poznań which is beginning to look more and more like a club that’s comfortable with losing, talk about the lack of quality in the table-top clash between Jagiellonia Białystok and Legia Warsaw, heap some praise on Piotr Stokowiec and talk a bit about Poland’s relegation from the top tier...

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The pod returns for another dose of the enjoyable, the absurd and the ridiculous. We look at the Ekstraklasa where literally anyone can beat anyone, discuss the first round of the Polish cup where Zagłębie Lubin slipped on a massive banana skin and preview Poland's October Nations League games. Along the way we talk about Grosicki desperate transfer window risk-taking, drinking wine until 5am in Bologna and the biggest cup shocks in Polish football history. Enjoy!

The pod returns after a month's absence to round up the state of play in the Ekstraklasa where Legia Warsaw have started the season badly for the 3rd year in succession, Wisła Kraków are out of nowhere playing the best football in the league, Korona Kielce are doing Korona Kielce things and Wisła Płock are taking over the national team one player at a time. Along the way we look at managers losing the plot, teams losing leads and Polish clubs in European competitions losing to pretty much...

The pod is back after a short summer break to talk through Poland's nightmare at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, preview the 2018-9 Ekstraklasa season and have a look at Polish clubs chances in the qualifiers for European Competitions. Along the way we discuss whether this is the worst year in Polish football history (it's not), talk about Persian princes and whether there are more sheep than kangaroos in New Zealand. Enjoy!

In the second part of our Ekstraklasa season review pod, Maciej and I reviewed the bottom half of the table saying a fond farewell to the relegated Termalica and Sandecja, put together our wwopf silly team of the season, talked about the not yet finished second tier promotion race and answered some of your questions. Enjoy!

In the first part of our Ekstraklasa season review pod, Maciej and I discussed our funniest moments of the season, the top half of the table including Legia's title triumph and Lech's catastrophic collapse and put together our team of the season. Part two to follow tomorrow :)

The pod returns after a month hiatus to sum up the Ekstraklasa as it moves into the playoff round of the season. We talk about Lech Poznań's surprise rise to the top, the decline of Jagiellonia Białystok, Legia Warsaw ominously lurking in the wings despite being in bad form and the free for all at the bottom of the Ekstraklasa table. We also discussed the state of play in the Polish cup semi-finals before next week's second legs. Along the way we criticised the total lack of vision at Śląsk...

After a two week break the pod returns to talk about the Ekstraklasa over the last couple of weeks, the fact that the title race seems to be well and truly on, Jaga's excellent form at the top of the league, Legia's knack for winning games while not playing particularly well, Lech's upturn in form at Legia, crowd violence at Piast vs Górnik and lots of other tasty morsels. Our 1 liga (second tier corner) returns as the promotion and relegation race is weighed up, we present our prediction...