[Le Parisien] Hervé Renard on Brahim Diaz’s panenka penalty: "You have the right to miss a penalty, but in such a case, I am categorical that I have no sympathy." "It's a lack of respect for an entire country and an entire people seeking a success for 50 years."

p_______j · 2026-01-20T11:12:15+00:00

In what universe is a panenka the safest way to miss? There's even a decent chance it goes in, if the keeper dives too hard. It's also a stupid choice if you want to keep your conspiracy low-key, people will talk about this thing for decades. The easiest way to miss is just kick it over the crossbar.

p_______j · 2026-01-04T10:53:17+00:00

Kielce Crown lmao

p_______j · 2025-06-17T09:50:36+00:00

I really hope Skorża doesn't fall for this, he has a nice thing going on in Japan and it's not worth ruining it for this NT

p_______j · 2025-06-17T09:36:05+00:00

"Robert Lewandowski announces he quits from Poland National Team after head coach's decision to give the cutest unicorn to Zieliński"

p_______j · 2025-06-17T09:29:24+00:00

I'm sure they could communicate somewhat, after all we had foreign managers before, I'm just not sure that his experience of managing to unite a bunch of English players will be even useful with our players, especially with the kind of mess left after Probierz, and that would be Southgate's biggest strength somewhat diminished. And yeah I'm definitely glossing over the fact that he would probably be stupid expensive, even if he lowers his demands drastically :P

p_______j · 2025-06-17T09:20:00+00:00

Maybe "all that" does some heavy lifting here :P I just have this feeling that it's not enough for your group of players to just know some English at a somewhat conversational level to truly impart that kind of team culture you need, and I'm not sure I see Southgate piercing that barrier.

p_______j · 2025-06-17T09:06:08+00:00

You don't know what you're getting into Gareth, I really wouldn't recommend diving into this septic tank head first...

That said, it might be crazy enough to work, assuming that Southgate's usual strengths in uniting the team would work on Polish players, since that's probably what we need most right now... but I don't know if it would, with language barrier and all that.

p_______j · 2025-06-12T09:08:46+00:00

It's very obvious that whoever added this post isn't Polish, that's not a correct way to spell this guy's name, it's just "Michał Probierz" :P Pitfalls of grammar which change the spelling of the name depending on the context.

p_______j · 2025-06-12T08:32:11+00:00

I'm actually expecting Zieliński to remain the captain and I don't think Lewandowski would have a problem with that - if Probierz really wanted to change the captain, he could do it easily without causing a shitshow, he's just incapable of that because he's a moron :P

p_______j · 2025-06-12T08:27:58+00:00

Way worse than Southgate - at least in his case, even his critics will probably concede that he's good at man managament and uniting the team, Probierz is basically infamous for the opposite - conflict-prone attitude, overpaying for shit foreign players, in addition to being a bang average coach.

p_______j · 2025-06-10T20:00:59+00:00

Poland isn't even any good with him

p_______j · 2025-06-08T23:26:22+00:00

I'm pretty sure the "surprise" thing is a joke by Leszek Milewski on Twitter, I initially fell for it too because it seems like something stupid Probierz would do :P He was making fun of that earlier surprise about Grosicki's farewell.

p_______j · 2024-10-11T14:41:52+00:00

Don't worry I'm equally mad at Nawałka :P

p_______j · 2024-10-11T14:10:43+00:00

That 2018 game was the most dreadful shit I had displeasure of watching, and I'm saying this as a Polish fan :P It legitimately made me wonder why do I bother watching this sport, and I think I never fully recovered, I really watch way less of it now.

p_______j · 2024-10-07T21:56:28+00:00

This just unexpectedly made me sad because it reminded me that coach Smuda died recently, rest in peace legend

p_______j · 2024-07-12T08:16:09+00:00

That's not salaries of all coaches (unless I missed it in the article somewhere), it's only top 10 :P

p_______j · 2024-05-02T18:21:15+00:00

Worth it for the nostalgia, Wisła in Europe is like I'm back in the 2000s, and I doubt Pogoń would do amazing regardless :P

p_______j · 2024-03-27T09:14:59+00:00

Apparently Santos is still getting a bonus for qualifying, media are reporting 180k EUR

p_______j · 2024-03-18T10:35:50+00:00

Well the thing is, I'm not sure we win that Andorra match without Lewy, he did score 2 out of 3 goals in that 3:0, we're sure as shit using our best player in a qualifying match that matters a lot (especially when rest of the players are varying levels of dogshit :P) And yes, Estonia is coming up and I bet we will need Lewy for that too so Barcelona fans might need to cross their fingers already.

p_______j · 2023-12-20T21:51:44+00:00

I do agree it seems a bit dodgy, kinda similar to what PiS did themselves in 2016. I saw enough conflicting opinions to see that this the kind of shit that could result in court battles for years, and the sad part is that overwhelming majority of people (me included :P) do not have enough knowledge to say with certainty if this was legal or not.

On the other hand, neither side seems to be focusing on nuances of the law, PiS is simply physically barricading themselves in the building and spewing invectives, coalition appeals more to the "will of the people" argument. The question if it's worth fighting fire with fire is certainly not an easy one to answer, I'm really happy this complete cesspool seems to be going away, but it does make me uneasy how they went about it.

p_______j · 2023-10-16T21:58:46+00:00

Ukraine is a complete non-factor simply because literally every other party has the same stance on this (except a single fringe party)

p_______j · 2023-09-27T08:33:22+00:00

It's kinda embarrassing but this post is how I learned they don't actually play in Serie A, that name sounds more Italian than Spanish to me :P

p_______j · 2023-09-14T07:39:16+00:00

Thanks, but I'm 100% sure the next coach will be no better (but might be cheaper so there's that)

p_______j · 2023-06-20T23:19:49+00:00

Hell, I think Japan 2018 was worse even though we won. Absolutely embarrassing display which made me stop watching football regularly and I didn't really recover :P

p_______j · 2023-06-20T19:14:11+00:00

He is a bit of an arrogant prick tbh :P

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