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An overnight train from Katowice, an early morning check-in and we’re all set for a 10:15 KO at Slavoj Vysehrad in the Czech FNL. I even managed to find the ground, after catching the subway to Vysehrad and then walking it. It was a pleasant Sunday morning, all the benefits of the sun before it got too hot.
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| Am I in the right place? Entrance up them steps... |
Only, once at the stadium, there’s nobody there. I wander in, probably spend 20 minutes snapping away, (inc. a fixture list: so they DO have a game this morn!) What happened? Well, a bit of digging later on shows they probably played their game at Viktoria Zizkov’s stadium; how annoying – a trip to Zizkov is the best footie experience going in Prague.
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| A grand building overlooks the ground. |
I was really looking forward to Slavoj as well, a small team who’d somehow reached the second tier of Czech football, with it’s inherent 10:15 Sunday morning kick-offs. It would be like being back home in England in the wilds of a provincial Sunday morning league, albeit with Czech beer and sausages. Only it wasn’t, cos no-one was there. I’d even checked the fixture earlier, on soccerway.com What it DIDN’T say was the adjournment of the game to Zizkov. Ho hum.
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| Slavoj past and present |
I presume Stadion Slavoj Vyšehrad is not of a standard for the Czech FNL, however low the crowds are. It’s an odd little place. The pitch is raised a level above the street and there’s no stands to speak of. I have no idea how the authorities arrive at a figure of 2,500 capacity. No seats, no terracing, no nuffink…apart from a restaurant down one side. The pitch though looks magnificent – so it should, it’s plastic.
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| The restaurant hogs one touchline. |
But it was fine. I was up and about on a glorious Prague Sunday morning and my walk back to the centre brought amazing river views from up on high, before trekking through woods and past some old town wall. There are worse places to miss a match.
The Damage:
€0. Cheap at twice the price.
The Tunes:
Lady’s Bridge (Richard Hawley)
Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)
Just For A Day (Slowdive)
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| The flats behind one goal. |
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| The goal at the end I came in. |
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| The Dugout side. |
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| The dugouts. |
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| Thistles break through on the 'terrace'. |
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| The pathway behind the dugouts. |
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