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Images via @GornikZabrzeSSA and @ChicagoFire on Twitter It’s time for another wide-ranging update of what I believe to the most interesting stories worth talking about in Polish football over the course of the last two weeks or so. As you can see from the title of this article, I’ll be mostly focusing on three particular topics, but I’ll also be gently throwing ahead to the next meeting of the Polish national team, which granted is still over a month away but worth mentioning

Images via @SLBenfica and @LechPoznan on Twitter, Mikolaj Barbanell/Shutterstock Returning to this website after an extended break on account of the World Cup, and it feels like there’s been a sizeable amount of change in Polish football. Some of these changes, like transfers, are obvious. Other changes seem more to do with a growing self-confidence, something that in the time I’ve been interested in and been writing about Polish football, has never really been there. I’ll b

Image via @ChicagoFire on Twitter You may or may not have noticed that this website has “gone dark” if you will, on the basis of the fact that the World Cup is on and despite there being a couple of Polish transfers of note, they weren’t necessarily the kind of moves I wanted to fully explore in an article at this moment in time. Of course, Robert Lewandowski moving to Chicago Fire of the MLS, as was formally announced yesterday, is very much something worth writing about. T

Image via @LaczyNasPilka on Twitter I wanted to write something summing up the last week for Poland, and the friendlies which have decidedly soured the mood for many who follow the national team. My primary argument against this would be that we’re in such a healthier place both in terms of the mood around the Polish national team, not to mention the quality of football we’re seeing for the most part, than this time a year ago. Not everyone sees it this way, however, and the